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Facing Dec. Execution, Pervis Payne Asks Court for DNA Testing as New Evidence in 30-Year-Old Case

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|Date: August 08, 2020
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Facing Dec. Execution, Pervis Payne Asks Court for DNA Testing as New Evidence in 30-Year-Old Case

By Angelina Caplanis TENNESSEE – DNA testing of 30-year-old evidence, including the murder weapon, may e ...

By Angelina Caplanis TENNESSEE – DNA testing of 30-year-old evidence, including the murder weapon, may exonerate Pervis Payne months before his execution date on December 3, 2020. Payne—an intellectu ...

August 08, 2020
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No Body, No Weapon, No Crime Scene – How Disappearance Led to Guilty Conviction

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|Date: August 05, 2020
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No Body, No Weapon, No Crime Scene – How Disappearance Led to Guilty Conviction

By Elizabeth Cho SANTA CLARA – More than five years after Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar went missin ...

By Elizabeth Cho SANTA CLARA – More than five years after Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar went missing in 2012, Antolin Garcia-Torres was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of par ...

August 05, 2020
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Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

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|Date: August 04, 2020
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Analysis: CDCR Has NOT Reduced Its Prison Population Below 100,000

Last week you may have seen it, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on ...

Last week you may have seen it, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced on Thursday that it had reduced its prison population below 100,000 incarcerated people for the fi ...

August 04, 2020
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Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

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|Date: August 01, 2020
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Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

By Zhuoshan Liu MEMPHIS, TN - Friday, Pervis Payne’s attorney’s request for DNA testing was opposed by Sh ...

By Zhuoshan Liu MEMPHIS, TN - Friday, Pervis Payne’s attorney’s request for DNA testing was opposed by Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich. Payne, a Black man with an intellectual disability a ...

August 01, 2020
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Wrongful Convictions Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People

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|Date: July 30, 2020
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Wrongful Convictions Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People

In two weeks, Laurese Glover will join us for our 10th annual Vanguard fundraiser. The keynote speaker i ...

In two weeks, Laurese Glover will join us for our 10th annual Vanguard fundraiser. The keynote speaker is Mark Godsey, the Director of the Ohio Innocence Project. Laurese Glover, along with Eugene Jo ...

July 30, 2020
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Conservatives Opposed to Death Penalty Argue Other Conservatives Wrong

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|Date: July 30, 2020
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Conservatives Opposed to Death Penalty Argue Other Conservatives Wrong

By Nicholas Gardner SACRAMENTO---Death Penalty Focus, an anti-death penalty organization based in Sacrame ...

By Nicholas Gardner SACRAMENTO---Death Penalty Focus, an anti-death penalty organization based in Sacramento, convened Wednesday over Zoom as part of their weekly webinar series on the current state o ...

July 30, 2020
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Innocent Black Man is Six Months Away from Execution

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|Date: July 25, 2020
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Innocent Black Man is Six Months Away from Execution

By Gabriela Tsudik TENNESSEE – About four months from now, on Dec. 3, 2020, Pervis Payne, 53, is schedule ...

By Gabriela Tsudik TENNESSEE – About four months from now, on Dec. 3, 2020, Pervis Payne, 53, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, after spending 32 years on death row. Payne is an African-Americ ...

July 25, 2020
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Santa Clara DA Unveils ‘Bend the Arc’ Social Justice Reforms, Abandons Death Penalty

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|Date: July 23, 2020
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Santa Clara DA Unveils ‘Bend the Arc’ Social Justice Reforms, Abandons Death Penalty

By Linh Nguyen SANTA CLARA – Nearly two months after the killing of George Floyd, Santa Clara District At ...

By Linh Nguyen SANTA CLARA – Nearly two months after the killing of George Floyd, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has announced—as have other DA offices nationwide—social justice reforms that ...

July 23, 2020
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Discovery of Government-Withheld Evidence Convinces Judge to Block Federal Execution

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|Date: July 16, 2020
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Discovery of Government-Withheld Evidence Convinces Judge to Block Federal Execution

By Shellsea Lomeli WASHINGTON, DC - A last-minute lawsuit led to a pause in the second scheduled federal ...

By Shellsea Lomeli WASHINGTON, DC - A last-minute lawsuit led to a pause in the second scheduled federal execution after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Wesley Ira Purkey was found guilty of kidnapping a ...

July 16, 2020
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Within 90 Minutes of Execution, Black Man Retried and Exonerated

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|Date: July 16, 2020
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Within 90 Minutes of Execution, Black Man Retried and Exonerated

By Ariella Seidman-Parra CINCINNATI, OHIO – Derrick Jamison is a Black man who was within 90 minutes of e ...

By Ariella Seidman-Parra CINCINNATI, OHIO – Derrick Jamison is a Black man who was within 90 minutes of execution, on death row for 20 years in Ohio for a crime that he did not commit. It started Augu ...

July 16, 2020
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Updated Story: Supreme Court Rushes Last-Minute Decision to Execute Man, First Time in 17 Years (Updated at 9 am)

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|Date: July 14, 2020
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Updated Story: Supreme Court Rushes Last-Minute Decision to Execute Man, First Time in 17 Years (Updated at 9 am)

Updated story: In the late hours on Monday, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the first execution ...

Updated story: In the late hours on Monday, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the first execution in 17 years, with an unsigned ruling. The unsigned 5-to-4 ruling saw Justices Stephen Breyer an ...

July 14, 2020
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My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

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|Date: July 04, 2020
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My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, " ...

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, "Our death penalty system has been—by any measure—a failure." He wrote, "It has provided no publ ...

July 04, 2020
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The Supreme Court Gives Federal Executions the Go-Ahead

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|Date: June 30, 2020
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The Supreme Court Gives Federal Executions the Go-Ahead

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider WASHINGTON DC – The Supreme Court rejected a petition contesting the recently e ...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider WASHINGTON DC – The Supreme Court rejected a petition contesting the recently enacted federal execution protocol, effectively ending a 17-year hiatus of federal executions in ...

June 30, 2020
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Motion Filed to Stay Execution of Texas Convicted Murderer

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|Date: June 24, 2020
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Motion Filed to Stay Execution of Texas Convicted Murderer

By Larkin White WASHINGTON D.C. – A motion to stay the execution of Texas prisoner Billy Joe Wardlow was ...

By Larkin White WASHINGTON D.C. – A motion to stay the execution of Texas prisoner Billy Joe Wardlow was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday. If the stay is not granted, Wardlow will be execute ...

June 24, 2020
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AG Barr Announces Resumed Scheduling of Federal Executions

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|Date: June 18, 2020
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AG Barr Announces Resumed Scheduling of Federal Executions

by Henry Stiepleman DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorney General William Barr this Monday ordered the Federal ...

by Henry Stiepleman DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorney General William Barr this Monday ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of four men on death row, announced the Department ...

June 18, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

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|Date: June 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of kill ...

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of killing an 81-year-old acquaintance nearly three decades ago. But the Innocence Project and others ...

June 09, 2020
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‘Death by Juror Bias and Questionable Evidence’: Scott Peterson Appealing Death Sentence

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|Date: June 03, 2020
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‘Death by Juror Bias and Questionable Evidence’: Scott Peterson Appealing Death Sentence

By Michael Frye SAN FRANCISCO – In a virtual hearing before the California Supreme Court Tuesday, attorne ...

By Michael Frye SAN FRANCISCO – In a virtual hearing before the California Supreme Court Tuesday, attorney Cliff Gardner argued that Scott Peterson did not have a fair trial more than 15 years ago—tha ...

June 03, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georg ...

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georgia for a murder he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit. More than 40 years after he wa ...

May 27, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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My View: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are executing an innocent man!”

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justi ...

The question out of Missouri this is week is one of the most fundamental we can ask in the criminal justice system—did we just execute an innocent man? And perhaps more importantly—why? That is the q ...

May 23, 2020
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Missouri Executes First Person Since COVID-19: A Man Who Claimed Innocence

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|Date: May 20, 2020
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Missouri Executes First Person Since COVID-19: A Man Who Claimed Innocence

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- After nearly two decades in and out of courtrooms to fight for his innocence, ...

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- After nearly two decades in and out of courtrooms to fight for his innocence, Missouri man Walter Barton was executed on May 19, 2020, marking the first execution in the nat ...

May 20, 2020
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