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New Jersey Abolishes Death Penalty
2007-12-18 22:58:00 News Update 12.18.07 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere How Appealing provides several links to articles about the abolition of the death penalty in New Jersey . The fine folks over at Abolish! have lots of pictures and video capturing Gov. Corzine signing the bill. They also have video of a speech given by Sister Helen Prejean. One consequence ... More About: Death , Death penalty , Penalty
Lisa Greene Trial Continues
2007-12-14 16:15:00 News Update 12.14.07 North Carolina The Cabarrus County trial of Lisa Greene is ongoing. Yesterday the defense questioned the State’s expert about differences between simulations run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the actual fire that killed Greene’s children. When the defense attorney asked the expert to mark one of the ... More About: News , Howard Dean , Trial , Death penalty
More on Jonathan Hoffman
2007-12-12 19:59:00 News Update 12.12.07 North Carolina All charges were dropped yesterday against Jonathan Hoffman , who spent seven years on death row for the murder of a jewelry store owner. Defense attorneys suspect that the real killer is a relative of one of the main witnesses against Hoffman at his original trial. Media reporting here and here. ...
Charges Dropped Against Jonathan Hoffman
2007-12-11 22:49:00 BREAKING NEWS All charges have been dropped against Jonathan Hoffman , who was sentenced to die in 1996 for the murder of a jewelry store owner in Union County. Read the press release here. No physical evidence linked Hoffman to the crime. Prosecutors sent him to death row by deceiving the judge, the jury, ...
Charles Triplin Not Guilty
2007-12-06 16:07:00 News Update 12.06.07 North Carolina Yesterday, a Cumberland County jury found Charles Triplin not guilty of the crime for which he has spent more than four years behind bars. Until a month before trial, Triplin faced the death penalty for the 2003 murder of Shelly Wooten. The jury reported that they did not believe the ... More About: News , Louisiana , Death penalty , Guilty
Court Asked to Reverse Council of State
2007-12-04 22:26:00 News Update 12.04.07 North Carolina Attorneys for five inmates on North Carolina’s death row have asked the Wake County Superior Court to review the Council of State ’s February decision to approve a new lethal injection protocol. The complaint raises several issues: that the agency’s final decision was issued after the statutory deadline to do so had ... More About: Council of State
Executions - December 2007
2007-12-04 18:48:00 6 - Thomas Arthur (AL) 12 - Pervis Payne (TN - stay likely) More About: Executions , December , December 2007
Dead Men Tell Many Tales
2007-11-30 17:22:00 News Update 11.30.07 North Carolina Alan Gell, who was freed from prison in 2004 after being sentenced to die for a crime he could not have committed, is back in prison. The News & Observer explores why. More information on Gell’s exoneration is available here. In 2003, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that an attorney ... More About: News , Mike Huckabee , Death penalty , Tales
Charges Dropped Against Jerry Anderson
2007-11-29 16:25:00 News Update 11.29.07 North Carolina In July, Caldwell County prosecutors were asking a jury to sentence Jerry Anderson to die for the murder of his wife. This week, they dropped all charges against Anderson and declared their commitment to finding the real killer. Emily Anderson’s body was found in South Carolina ten days after her ... More About: News , Death penalty
Fake Science Lands Man in Prison for Life
2007-11-20 17:33:00 News Update 11.20.07 North Carolina Lee Wayne Hunt narrowly avoided the death penalty 21 years ago when he was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for the execution-style killing of a Fayetteville couple. The only forensic evidence against Hunt and his co-defendant were bullets found at the scene, which an FBI agent testified matched a ... More About: Science , News , Life , Louisiana
Jerry Conner Video Released
2007-11-16 22:30:00 In the summer of 1990, Minh and Linda Rogers were shot to death while working at their family-owned grocery in rural Gates County, North Carolina . Some money was taken. Sixteen year-old Linda was raped. The next year, Jerry Wayne Conner was tried and sentenced to death for the murders. His sentence ... More About: Video , Commentary , Released , Death penalty
Like Being Struck By Lightning
2007-11-15 16:46:00 News Update 11.15.07 North Carolina In Cabarrus County, Lisa Greene was in court yesterday, facing the death penalty for allegedly burning her house down with her children inside. Meanwhile in neighboring Mecklenberg County, Gilberto Miranda Cuellar received a life sentence for burning his house down with his children inside. (In Cuellar’s case, the children were ... More About: News , Lightning , Death penalty , Kentucky
Hoffman Prosecutors Seek Testimony of Dead Witness
2007-11-12 16:36:00 News Update 11.12.07 North Carolina Jonathan Gregory Hoffman was convicted and sentenced to death in Union County in 1996, based in part upon the testimony of a root doctor who claimed he sold Hoffman a magical charm that would keep him from getting arrested. (For those not from the Deep South, a root doctor or rootworker ... More About: Witness , Dead , Testimony , Seek
Death Avoided, Justice Sought
2007-11-08 21:46:00 News Update 11.08.07 North Carolina Defendants in Durham and Jacksonville, as well as two in Monroe, who once faced the death penalty resolved their cases this week. Eddie Whitson, Anthony Rankin, and Michael Neal Decarlo Clark will all spend the rest of their lives in prison. LaToya McGill pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She ... More About: News , Justice , Death , Death penalty
New Trial for Glen Chapman
2007-11-08 20:16:00 In 1994, Glen Edward Chapman was convicted of killing Tenene Yvette Conley and Betty Jean Ramseur. He has spent every day of the last 14 years on death row, protesting his innocence. Yesterday, a judge ordered that Chapman should receive a new trial because police withheld evidence, lost or destroyed documents, and the ... More About: Trial
Another Military Death Case
2007-11-06 17:05:00 News Update 11.06.07 North Carolina The colonel in charge of the investigation has recommended that Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez should face the death penalty if convicted of killing two superior officers in Iraq in 2005. Although all those involved were part of the New York National Guard, the case is being handled at Ft. Bragg because ... More About: News , Military , Death , Death penalty
Executions - November 2007
2007-11-01 15:27:00 1 - Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan (AZ - stayed) 6 - Allen Bridgers (TX - stayed) 8 - Don William Davis (AR - stayed) 15 - Ramon Sanchez (PA - stay likely) 15 - Mark Dean Schwab (FL) 27 - Dale Scheanette (TX - stayed) No executions were carried out in the month of October. More About: Death penalty , Executions , November , November 2007
News from Around the Country
2007-11-01 15:18:00 News Update 11.01.07 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere Alabama, ever on the express train to Crazytown, has re-set the execution of Tommy Douglas Arthur for December 6th. Arthur was previously scheduled to be killed in September, but Governor Riley delayed the execution to give the Department of Corrections time to spiffy up its death machine. The State ... More About: News , Country , Death penalty
Earl Berry and the West Memphis Three
2007-10-31 15:06:00 News Update 10.31.07 North Carolina Juan Melendez, who spent 18 years on Florida’s death row for a crime he did not commit, spoke to UNC-Chapel Hill students last night about his experiences. The lecture was just one of over two dozen similar events planned across the state. John Holdridge of the NC-based ACLU Capital Punishment Project suggests ... More About: Berry , West , Memphis , Earl
Death Row Exonerees Tour NC
2007-10-29 15:27:00 News Update 10.29.07 North Carolina People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is hosting a tour of death row exonerees which will be making stops in Chapel Hill, Davidson, Durham, Greenville, Wilmington, Greensboro, Raleigh, Carrboro, Hickory, and Jacksonville over the next few days. Speakers include Ray Krone, Jay Smith, and Greg Wilhoit. For ... More About: News , Tour , Death penalty
Alabama Execution Blocked, Mississippi Next?
2007-10-25 16:07:00 News Update 10.25.07 North Carolina Nothing to report. Elsewhere The 11th Circuit stayed the execution of Alabama ’s Daniel Lee Siebert, pending the resolution of Baze. You can read the per curiam decision here. Attorneys are still trying to procure a stay for Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi . (c/o CDW) Berry is one of three inmates whose executions ... More About: News , Death penalty
Choosing Who Should Die
2007-10-23 21:25:00 News Update 10.23.07 North Carolina In Nash County, prosecutors have announced their intent to seek the death penalty against Tommy Lee Holiday, who is charged with stabbing two women - one fatally - at a church soup kitchen. The announcement came as little surprise, given that both the Governor and the Attorney General attended the ...
Perspectives on the Medical Board Appeal
2007-10-22 18:09:00 News Update 10.22.07 North Carolina There have been a number of editorials and letters to the editor regarding the Medical Board ’s decision to appeal a judge’s finding that they do not have the power to discipline doctors who participate in executions. See here and here. The LA Times has a good overview of the issue ... More About: News , Death penalty
Death Sentence in Moore County
2007-10-18 15:55:00 News Update 10.18.07 North Carolina A Moore County jury sentenced Mario Lynn Phillips to death yesterday. Phillips and two friends were charged with killing four people in 2003. There have been two other death sentences handed down in 2007, Eugene Johnny Williams of Cumberland County, and Byron Lamar Waring of Wake County. The North Carolina ... More About: News , Supreme Court , Death , Death penalty
Upcoming DP Events Statewide
2007-10-17 17:07:00 News Update 10.17.07 North Carolina In Davidson County, Sister Helen Prejean will be speaking at the Duke Family Performance Hall (207 Faculty Drive, Davidson College) on October 30th at 7:30 PM. The event is free. See the Piedmont Liberal Forum’s website for more information. Upcoming North Carolina screenings of Love Lived on Death Row: Wilmington - Cucalcorus ... More About: News , Events , Death penalty
Woman Faces Death in Cabarrus
2007-10-16 20:21:00 News Update 10.16.07 North Carolina In Cabarrus County, the capital trial of Lisa Greene is set to begin today. She stands accused of killing her children by setting the family home on fire. More information here. Elsewhere The execution of William Castillo has been stayed in Nevada. Castillo had been served his final meal, and ... More About: News , Faces , Death , Woman , Death penalty
Formerly Condemned Man Freed
2007-10-11 17:11:00 News Update 10.11.07 North Carolina Rex Penland, who spent 11 of the last 15 years on death row for a Stokes County murder, was set free last week. Penland, who maintains his innocence, entered an Alford plea to charges including second-degree murder. Given his good behavior and the time already served, he was released almost ... More About: News , Texas , Death penalty , Condemned
Floyd Brown Freed!
2007-10-09 17:07:00 News Update 10.09.07 North Carolina Regular readers may recall the case of Floyd Brown , who has been locked up in the state mental hospital for 14 years because he is too mentally retarded to stand trial for a murder he likely did not commit. (Prior reporting here, here, and here.) Mr. Brown was facing the ... More About: News , Death penalty
More on the Council of State, Active Cases
2007-10-03 17:21:00 News Update 10.03.07 North Carolina The folks at People of Faith Against the Death Penalty noted the following during the Council of State meeting yesterday: Apparently forgetting the First Amendment?s guarantee of freedom of speech and the right ?to petition the government for a redress of grievances,? NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall commented that she had received ... More About: News , Death penalty
Council of State Approves Lethal Injection Protocol
More articles from this author:2007-10-02 15:38:00 The Council of State voted this morning to reject the recommendations of an Administrative Law Judge and approve the Department of Correction’s proposed lethal injection protocol. Of the nine-member Council, only Commissioner James E. Long voted against the DOC. General info on the meeting here. More on the proceedings before the ALJ here. Older blogging here. WRAL reports ... More About: News , North Carolina , Death penalty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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