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Robert McLaughlin, a Hampton officer, shot his neighbor, Robert Cushing in 1988. Cushing's son, Renny, led effort to repeal death penalty in NH. ... He was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder ...
[188] [189] [190] West Virginia paid out a total of $6.5 million to settle lawsuits by people who had been wrongfully convicted due to Zain. [191] [192] [193] Feb 11, 1987: Tim Masters: Murder: Fort Collins, Colorado: Life in prison 9 years Yes Peggy Hettrick was murdered in 1987. Masters was a sophomore in high school at the time of the murder.
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
The Dixmoor 5 are five African-American men who, as teenagers in Dixmoor, Illinois, were falsely convicted of the November 1991 rape and murder of 14-year-old Cateresa Matthews. At the time of arrest, the defendants, Robert Taylor, Jonathan Barr, James Harden, Robert Lee Veal and Shainne Sharp were all between the ages of 14 and 16.
A new date must now be set for Roberson’s execution, providing precious time for his attorneys and a bipartisan group of Texas House members who believe he was wrongfully convicted of murder in ...
The modest VW was a far cry from the black BMW Buari drove as a drug dealer in the Bronx in the 1990s, before he was wrongly convicted of murder. His T-shirt, pants and black fedora were a stark ...
Robert Jones (born January 26, 1973) is an American man who was convicted for rape and manslaughter, following the murder of British tourist Julie Stott in New Orleans in 1992, and then had his conviction overturned.
Two men walk free from prison decades after being wrongfully convicted of murder as teens. Amelia Neath. December 15, 2023 at 8:34 AM.