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Inmates at a recently closed, scandal-plagued Bay Area women's prison dubbed "the rape club" have reached a historic settlement that will increase oversight and protections for about 500 inmates ...
At California federal prison dubbed the 'rape club,' feds agree to pay $116 million to 103 women held there to settle sexual abuse lawsuits Record $116-million settlement for women victimized in ...
After Governor Pete Wilson decreed in December 1991 that CCWF shall hold all female death row inmates in California, Maureen McDermott became the first death row inmate at CCWF. [23] [24] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [25]
The penalty phase of the trial was then declared a mistrial. A second jury returned a verdict of death. The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6]
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 235 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 86 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
Now she won a $5.6-million settlement. Terry Castleman. September 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM. ... Read more:Widespread sexual abuse of women in two California prisons draws federal investigation.
Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state in 1977. James Marlow was also sentenced to death. In 2005, Coffman's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [20] Kerry Lyn Dalton
A convicted murderer who has been on California’s death row for 33 years must either be released or retried after a federal judge on Thursday approved the state attorney general’s request to ...