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Johnny Paul Penry (born May 5, 1956) is a Texas prisoner serving three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without parole for rape and murder. He was on death row between 1980 and 2008, and his case generated discussion about the appropriateness of the death penalty for offenders who are thought to be intellectually disabled.
Aaron Brian Gunches (born June 30, 1971) [1] is an American prisoner on death row at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona, after being convicted for the 2002 murder of Ted Price. Gunches has attracted notoriety for repeatedly requesting his own execution and criticizing the state of Arizona for not doing so.
At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence – that Biden's commutation puts them at a legal disadvantage as they appeal their cases.
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 ...
At the start of the trial on November 3, 2010, the prosecution was seeking the death penalty for Smyrnes, Knight and Meidinger. [17] However, as of August 1, 2019, Knight and Smyrnes are the only convicts on death row. [18] Several jail inmates testified that Marinucci planned to kill Daugherty several days before her body was discovered.
Three men still remain on federal death row after President Joe Biden issued sweeping commutations Monday to the sentences of 37 other prisoners who were awaiting execution.. Biden's decision is ...
Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...