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  2. Kerry Max Cook - Wikipedia

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    Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors. [2]

  3. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]

  4. Anthony Charles Graves - Wikipedia

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    Short video by Amnesty International. Anthony Charles Graves (born August 29, 1965) is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America. [1] With no record of violence, [1] he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for 18 years before finally being exonerated and released. [2]

  5. Texas lawmaker proposes bill to abolish death penalty in Lone ...

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    A Texas state lawmaker has introduced legislation to eliminate the death penalty in the state amid a high-profile death row case currently unfolding. Democrat state Rep. John Bucy III filed the ...

  6. Robert Roberson's death penalty case proceeds despite doubts

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    The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...

  7. Texas Moratorium Network - Wikipedia

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    Jeanette Popp was Chairperson of Texas Moratorium Network from 2001 to 2004. Popp's daughter Nancy was murdered in Austin in 1988. She became intimately familiar with the many flaws of the Texas criminal justice system after two innocent men were wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and spent 12 years in prison.

  8. Capital punishment in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection , when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.

  9. Clarence Brandley - Wikipedia

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    Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) [1] was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas when the 16-year-old student Fergeson was a visiting athlete from ...