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Dr. Scharlette Holdman (December 11, 1946 – July 12, 2017) was an American death penalty abolitionist, anthropologist, and civil rights activist.She earned the nickname "The Angel of Death Row" [1] [2] due to her work collaborating with attorneys representing death row inmates during the appeals process and defendants facing capital murder charges, especially in Florida in the 1980s.
She was arrested in 1991 and convicted of murder the following year, being handed six death sentences. Wuorno was executed by lethal injection on 9 October 2002 after spending a decade on death row .
On 3 August 2009, the death sentences of all 4,000 death row inmates were commuted to life imprisonment, and government studies were ordered to determine if the death penalty has any impact on crime. In 2017 the Supreme Court of Kenya struck down the mandatory death penalty as unconstitutional. Lesotho: 1995 [97] n/a
A Florida judge on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida women. Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied to a white supremist gang, was ...
She was one of five women on death row in Florida, the other four being Tiffany Cole, Margaret Allen, Ana Maria Cardona and Tina Brown. Carr also became the first woman to be sentenced to death in Marion County since the 1992 sentencing of Aileen Wuornos. On May 19, 2017, Emilia Carr was re-sentenced to life without parole. [2]
Michael Duane Zack III, who was convicted of the 1996 killings of two women he met at bars along the Florida Panhandle, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Florida State Prison ...
Jack Harold Jones Jr. (August 10, 1964 – April 24, 2017) [1] was an American serial killer who murdered at least three women in Florida and Arkansas between 1983 and 1995. . Convicted of two murders during his lifetime and executed in 2017, [2] he was posthumously linked via DNA to the third murder, for which another man was impris
The families two women shot during a bank robbery in 2017 are speaking out against Biden’s commute of the convicted murderer’s sentence. The decision to commute 37 death row inmates ...