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Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 246 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Previously, male death row inmates were permitted to work. After an escape attempt occurred in 1998, the prison work program was eliminated. [39] In 1928, the state of Texas began housing death row inmates in the Huntsville Unit. In 1965, the male death row inmates moved to the Ellis Unit. In 1999, the male death row moved to Polunsky. [40]
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
Former Texas-sentenced inmates (all death row inmates on this list had been transferred to Polunsky Unit in 1999, commuted, released, and/or executed) Charles Brooks Jr. (executed December 7, 1982) [23] Peter Cantu (perpetrator of the murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña) [24] transferred to Polunsky Unit, executed August 17, 2010 [25]
The Polunsky Unit, where death row inmates are held in Texas, is pictured on May 21, 2013 in Livingston, Texas, about 40 miles from Huntsville. ... The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death ...