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Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
Agofsky, 53, claims he is innocent in the 1989 bank president murder case and disputes how he was charged in the stomping death case. Shannon Agofsky was convicted of two separate murders in 1989 ...
The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court documents.
Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by 6 votes to 3 that a claim of actual innocence does not entitle a petitioner to federal habeas corpus relief by way of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings on the use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While some rulings applied very narrowly, perhaps to only one individual, other cases have had great influence over wide areas of procedure, eligible crimes, acceptable evidence and method of execution.
A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half... View Article The post 2 men wrongfully sent to death row awarded $75M in ...
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio has been on death row for over a decade after being convicted of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. Lucio's lawyers have ...