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16 paź 2024 · Attorneys for a Kentucky man that’s spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer. Brian Keith Moore has spent most of his life in prison, serving a death sentence for the 1979 murder of Virgil Harris. From the beginning, Moore said he was framed by an old friend.
16 paź 2024 · Attorneys for a Kentucky man who's spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer.
21 gru 2023 · An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, the longest known wrongful sentence in the US.
2 dni temu · The death penalty is in limbo in Kentucky and nationwide. If Moore’s conviction is upheld, it’s unlikely Kentucky prison officials will execute him or anyone else anytime soon. A Franklin County Circuit Court judge halted executions in Kentucky in 2010, saying the state lacked safeguards to prevent the execution of mentally ill people.
16 cze 2024 · Of the 27 states with capital punishment, California has the largest population in the country. And not so much because California is the most populated state: rather, it’s because judges continue...
16 gru 2021 · Three high-profile cases — each involving likely innocent Black men sentenced to death for killing white victims — symbolized the enduring racial injustice of the nation’s death penalty. Julius Jones and Pervis Payne were spared execution, only to be resentenced to life in prison.
28 paź 2024 · It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty exists. It is unlikely that the appeals process—which is mainly focused on legal errors and not on factual determinations—will catch all the mistakes.
