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Breonna Taylor (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020) was an African-American woman who was shot and killed while unarmed in her Louisville, Kentucky home by three police officers who entered under the auspices of a "no-knock" search warrant.
An attorney for Taylor's family criticized this decision, stating: "Three counts for the shots into the apartment of the white neighbors, but no counts for the shots into the apartment of the black neighbors upstairs above Breonna's". [108] [109] Neither Hankison nor the two other officers involved in the raid were indicted for Taylor's death.
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson’s ruling declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad ...
A long-delayed conviction illustrates the difficulty of holding cops accountable for abusing their powers.
Former cop Brett Hankison faced charges that he used excessive force on the night of Taylor’s death LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) […] The post After mistrial, feds move to retry ex-Louisville cop who ...
The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information in this article may be ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor after she was fatally ...