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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 ...
2009 was the first year that no one was executed anywhere in Europe, however in March 2010, Belarus executed the last two people on its death row. [9] The European Union has long since been opposed to the death penalty, supporting the European Convention, and its 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights included an absolute ban on the death penalty ...
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 ...
Duane Eugene Owen (February 13, 1961 – June 15, 2023) was an American convicted murderer who raped and killed Karen Slattery and Georgianna Worden in Delray Beach and Boca Raton, Florida, in 1984. Owen was sentenced to death for the murders and was executed in 2023.
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 ...