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12 mar 2024 · Peterson was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of murder in the deaths of Laci and the unborn child they planned to name Conner. Prosecutors said he killed Laci and dumped her body in San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. The death sentence was later overturned, and he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
25 paź 2023 · Cooper, who has been on California’s death row for 35 years, is asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject the findings of an investigation into his case by the law firm Morrison Foerster that was released in January.
3 dni temu · 1 Inmate Killed, 13 Hurt in Prison Fight. Sept. 28, 1996. Duran’s time in prison was tough from the start. According to parole records, in 1996, he was shot by a guard during a riot at New ...
21 kwi 2023 · LOS ANGELES — Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder after a 2004 shooting were declared innocent Thursday by a California judge. Under a...
13 mar 2024 · The California Supreme Court in 2020 overturned Peterson's death sentence after finding that potential jurors were improperly dismissed after saying they disagreed with the death penalty but...
2 mar 2023 · Maurice Hastings, 69, was freed after an L.A. County judge vacated his conviction based on DNA evidence. The judge now finds him 'factually innocent.'
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.
