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Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Johnson was held on death row and executed. Edward Earl Johnson (June 22, 1960 – May 20, 1987) [1] was a man convicted in 1979 at the age of 18 and subsequently executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi for the murder of a policeman, J.T. Trest, and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman, Sally Franklin.
Both victims eventually identified Arthur Whitfield as the assailant. In 1982, he was convicted of one of the crimes and pled guilty to the second in order to receive a lighter sentence and have some of the charges dropped. DNA testing in 2004 proved that he was innocent of both crimes. The first victim was accosted as she got out of her car.
Gary Gauger (born January 21, 1952) is a formerly imprisoned convict, who was falsely accused and convicted of the murders of his parents, Morris and Ruth Gauger, and later exonerated. Following the murder on April 8, 1993, Gauger ultimately spent nearly two years in prison and 9 months on death row before being released in March 1996.
The true perpetrator of the B.B. King's robbery has never been charged with the crime. Now found innocent, Whitehead said he is ready to move forward and return to what he was doing before he was ...
Richard Alexander is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of a 1996 rape and exonerated in 2001 by DNA evidence. Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. [1] Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander for domestic violence.
Theis was held on a parole detainer, awaiting sentencing on convictions of first-degree home invasion, larceny of vehicles and other crimes, according to the Morning Sun. A bedsheet was reportedly used. Jail or Agency: Isabella County Jail; State: Michigan; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/31/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources ...
The Act seeks to ensure the fair administration of the death penalty and minimize the risk of executing innocent people. [1] The Innocence Protection Act of 2001 , introduced in the Senate as S. 486 and the House of Representatives as H.R. 912 , was included as Title IV of the omnibus Justice for All Act of 2004 (H.R. 5107), signed into law on ...
That means that despite studies showing that Black and white people use drugs at similar rates, innocent Black people are 19 times more likely to be convicted of drug crimes than innocent white ...