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Last week, a Texas criminal appeals court took a 64-year-old man off death row and resentenced him to life in prison without parole, after ruling that he was too intellectually disabled to be ...
On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024. Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...
On January 5, Best convinced Arridy to agree to leave the train to a fellow death row inmate, Angelo Agnes, who would be executed in a double execution the same year in September. [72] [73] [74] Arridy was initially reluctant to give his favorite toy away, but warmed up to the idea after playing with Agnes and Norman Wharton for a few hours.
The Ellis Unit housed the State of Texas death row for men until 1999. Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit, the site of state executions. Marvin Lee Wilson (January 5, 1958 – August 7, 2012) was executed by the State of Texas on August 7, 2012, despite experts finding his IQ was 61. Supreme ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 283 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 134 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
In March, the death of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man who died during intake at the mental health facility in Virginia, sparked outrage, and 10 people have been charged with second-degree ...
Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a bright-line IQ threshold requirement for determining whether someone has an intellectual disability (formerly mental retardation) is unconstitutional in deciding whether they are eligible for the death penalty.
The deaths — and the broader issue of mental health among college students — left a lasting impact on Martin and her fellow students. “A student death is so impactful to a community ...