Death Row

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September 8, 2011
OPINION - President Obama's intervention in the Troy Davis case would signal, above all else, his commitment to justice for…
July 1, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - On Friday, a ban that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law in March took effect...
April 26, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 58-year-old former Black Panther's first-degree murder conviction still stands in the fatal shooting of white officer…
April 11, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man being executed for beating and stomping to death a fellow inmate in a jailhouse…
February 17, 2011
A courtroom technicality has cost a wrongly convicted Texas man the compensation that would otherwise be due him for the…
January 10, 2011
OPINION - The impact of fresh pressure from mainstream news outlets has to change the dynamic of the investigation...
November 30, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - "The Scottsboro Boys," a musical based on the real story of nine black teenagers framed for…
September 2, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Keith received a death sentence and was scheduled to die Sept. 15 by injection for the…
August 24, 2010
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Some said they falsely incriminated Davis at his 1991 trial, either out of spite or under…
January 12, 2010
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) - Jerome Derricks says he heard God's call early. He only wishes he had answered sooner. By…
November 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in…
November 3, 2009
OPINION - Buddhism, with its emphasis on suffering, has clear connections with the spiritualism in African-American culture.
August 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis...
June 25, 2009
OPINION - My name is Martina Correia and I am on Death Row in Georgia...
June 24, 2009
In Georgia, a man named Troy Davis sits on Death Row despite unassailable evidence pointing to his innocence. It is
June 18, 2009
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right
June 17, 2009
Last week, as I traveled through the Caribbean town of Phillipsburg on the island of St. Maarten to give a