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Following the success of Streetwise, Bell made his feature film debut with American Heart starring Jeff Bridges and Edward Furlong.Inspired by the father-son relationship between Streetwise subject Dewayne Pomeroy and his incarcerated father, [6] the film was nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards including Best First Feature for Martin Bell and won for Best Male Lead for Jeff Bridges.
Ruben Montoya Cantu (December 5, 1966 – August 24, 1993) was an American murderer who was executed for a murder he committed when he was 17 years old. During the years following the conviction, the surviving victim, the co-defendant, the district attorney, and the jury forewoman made public statements that cast doubt on Cantu's guilty verdict.
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...
Adel Sambrano Ramos, accused of killing Sacramento Police officer Tara O’Sullivan in 2019, appears at a preliminary hearing in Sacramento Superior Court on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, the 26-year-old undocumented migrant charged with killing Riley, “went hunting for females on the University of Georgia’s campus,” before encountering his victim ...
Cone v. Bell, 556 U.S. 449 (2009), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a defendant was entitled to a hearing to determine whether prosecutors in his 1982 death penalty trial violated his right to due process by withholding exculpatory evidence. [1]
A 29-year-old San Angelo man faces an upgraded charge of capital murder in the 2020 shooting deaths of two people during what investigators believe was a drug-deal-turned-robbery in east Lubbock.
The surviving members were all convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins, who was shot and killed when responding to a robbery perpetrated by the Texas Seven. Four of the six sentenced have since been executed, and another has been granted a new trial based on alleged judicial bias.