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The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing, as he seeks to obtain testing on evidence he ...
Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) [1] is an American convicted of four murders in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983.. Cooper's conviction has garnered repeated attention from both Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times [2] and Erin Moriarty on the CBS News program "48 Hours."
The death row inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, appealed a lower court's ruling against his challenge to a Texas law limiting the use of DNA testing after a person has been convicted of a crime. The ...
A Missouri inmate convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998 will avoid the death penalty and instead be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said on ...
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.
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, 249 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
DNA testing, conducted in 2016 and using technology that was not available at the time of the killing, shows Marcellus Williams is not a match for the male DNA found on the murder weapon.
Despite pending litigation, Skinner was given an execution date for November 9, 2011. Gray County District Attorney Lynn Switzer (the respondent in Skinner's lawsuit) had written, in a brief to the court filed on June 2, 2011, that "Texas satisfied all the requirements of constitutional due process when it offered Skinner the opportunity to test the DNA evidence at trial."