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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Denies Clemency for Death Row’s Benjamin Cole – Defense Team Turns to Other Venues

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|Date: September 28, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Denies Clemency for Death Row’s Benjamin Cole – Defense Team Turns to Other Venues

By Naya Wiezel OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate, was denied clemency by the OK Pardo ...

By Naya Wiezel OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate, was denied clemency by the OK Pardon and Parole Board this week, despite substantial evidence of both severe mental illness and ph ...

September 28, 2022
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Glossip Lawyers File 2nd Petition to Oklahoma Appeals Court Asserting Evidence of Informant’s Efforts to Recant Were Withheld from Glossip Attorneys

Posted by Rena Abdusalam
|Date: September 24, 2022
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Glossip Lawyers File 2nd Petition to Oklahoma Appeals Court Asserting Evidence of Informant’s Efforts to Recant Were Withheld from Glossip Attorneys

By Rena Abdusalam OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Lawyers for death row inmate Richard Glossip filed a Brady applica ...

By Rena Abdusalam OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Lawyers for death row inmate Richard Glossip filed a Brady application for post-conviction relief with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late this week. Rev ...

September 24, 2022
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Clemency Petition Filed on Behalf of Disabled Man on Oklahoma Death Row Claims Execution Would Be ‘Inhumane Spectacle’

Posted by Leila Katibah
|Date: September 20, 2022
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Clemency Petition Filed on Behalf of Disabled Man on Oklahoma Death Row Claims Execution Would Be ‘Inhumane Spectacle’

By Leila Katibah & Wayne Chan OKLAHOMA CITY - “Mercilessly executing a man this disabled would be an ...

By Leila Katibah & Wayne Chan OKLAHOMA CITY - “Mercilessly executing a man this disabled would be an inhumane spectacle beneath our individual and collective dignity,” argued Assistant Federal Pub ...

September 20, 2022
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Former GOP Lawmaker, Victim, Former Corrections Chief Urge Governor to Commute Thursday Death Sentence

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|Date: August 23, 2022
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Former GOP Lawmaker, Victim, Former Corrections Chief Urge Governor to Commute Thursday Death Sentence

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLOMA CITY, OK – James Coddington is due to be executed here Thursday, but Monday ...

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLOMA CITY, OK – James Coddington is due to be executed here Thursday, but Monday received strong support from a myriad of people who said they believe Coddington is a changed ...

August 23, 2022
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Petition Filed, OK Lawmakers Urge Clemency for Glossip, Now on Death Row

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: August 14, 2022
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Petition Filed, OK Lawmakers Urge Clemency for Glossip, Now on Death Row

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Death row inmate Richard Glossip’s attorneys filed a clemency petiti ...

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Death row inmate Richard Glossip’s attorneys filed a clemency petition late this week in an effort to prevent the State of Oklahoma from a fourth execution attempt ...

August 14, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Recommends Clemency for James Coddington – Up to Governor Now

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|Date: August 04, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Recommends Clemency for James Coddington – Up to Governor Now

By Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to Wednesday to reco ...

By Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to Wednesday to recommend death row prisoner James Coddington’s death sentence be commuted to life without the poss ...

August 04, 2022
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New Evidence Leads Attorney to Urge New Court Trial for Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: July 05, 2022
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New Evidence Leads Attorney to Urge New Court Trial for Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – After an investigation yielded new evidence concerning the case for ...

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – After an investigation yielded new evidence concerning the case for death row inmate Richard Glossip, his attorney, Don Knight, is calling for a court trial before ...

July 05, 2022
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Drunk Lawyer Grossly Misrepresented Black Man Now on Death Row, Appeal Claims

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: June 20, 2022
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Drunk Lawyer Grossly Misrepresented Black Man Now on Death Row, Appeal Claims

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Based on evidence that his court-appointed trial lawyer was a ...

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Based on evidence that his court-appointed trial lawyer was addicted to drugs during his representation, Tremane Wood—a Black man on death row for a crime h ...

June 20, 2022
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Arizona Superior Court Rules Death Row Prisoner Competent to Be Executed Despite Documents of Mental Illness

Posted by Alexander Jimenez
|Date: May 09, 2022
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Arizona Superior Court Rules Death Row Prisoner Competent to Be Executed Despite Documents of Mental Illness

By Alex Jimenez PINAL COUNTY, AZ – The plan to execute Clarence Dixon will move forward after an Arizona ...

By Alex Jimenez PINAL COUNTY, AZ – The plan to execute Clarence Dixon will move forward after an Arizona judge rejected a stay of execution, although Dixon’s attorney alleges the superior court relied ...

May 09, 2022
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

Posted by Gracyann Joslin
|Date: May 03, 2022
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

By Gracy Joslin NASHVILLE, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Monday temporarily halted the lethal injectio ...

By Gracy Joslin NASHVILLE, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Monday temporarily halted the lethal injection of death row patient Oscar Franklin Smith until “third-party review of a lethal injection tes ...

May 03, 2022
| by Gracyann Joslin

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Lawyers Criticize Decision by AZ Supreme Court to Set May Execution Date for Disabled, Mentally Ill Man

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|Date: April 06, 2022
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Lawyers Criticize Decision by AZ Supreme Court to Set May Execution Date for Disabled, Mentally Ill Man

By Vanguard Staff PHOENIX, AZ – An attorney for Arizona death row prisoner Clarence Dixon criticized an A ...

By Vanguard Staff PHOENIX, AZ – An attorney for Arizona death row prisoner Clarence Dixon criticized an Arizona Supreme Court decision to set May 11 as the execution date for the disabled man, who the ...

April 06, 2022
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Texas Man on Death Row Wins U.S. Supreme Court Case to Have Pastor at Execution

Posted by Sofia Leguria
|Date: April 01, 2022
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Texas Man on Death Row Wins U.S. Supreme Court Case to Have Pastor at Execution

By Sofia Leguria and Shady Gonzales WASHINGTON, DC – A week ago, the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled in R ...

By Sofia Leguria and Shady Gonzales WASHINGTON, DC – A week ago, the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled in Ramirez v. Collier a man on death row can, because of religious reasons, have a priest with him ...

April 01, 2022
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Newsom Kills Death Row

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|Date: March 28, 2022
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Newsom Kills Death Row

By Adrian G. Torres Published by the Mule Creek Post In a January 31, 2022 press conference, California ...

By Adrian G. Torres Published by the Mule Creek Post In a January 31, 2022 press conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced his intent to stand by his decision to undo the state’s death r ...

March 28, 2022
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Melissa Lucio – Facing April Execution – Seeks Recusal of Judge and District Attorney; Her Former Attorney Now DA in Opposing Office

Posted by Ashleen Herrarte
|Date: February 23, 2022
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Melissa Lucio – Facing April Execution – Seeks Recusal of Judge and District Attorney; Her Former Attorney Now DA in Opposing Office

By Ashleen Herrarte and Mathew Seibert BROWNSVILLE, TX – The defense team for Melissa Lucio – scheduled t ...

By Ashleen Herrarte and Mathew Seibert BROWNSVILLE, TX – The defense team for Melissa Lucio – scheduled to be executed in April – is currently seeking the recusal of Judge Gabriela Garcia and District ...

February 23, 2022
| by Ashleen Herrarte

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CA Opponents of Death Penalty Look to Alternatives, from Abolition to Reducing Size of Death Row – New Laws to Ban Executions Introduced

Posted by Luke Kyaw
|Date: February 15, 2022
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CA Opponents of Death Penalty Look to Alternatives, from Abolition to Reducing Size of Death Row – New Laws to Ban Executions Introduced

By Luke Kyaw and Mathew Seibert SACRAMENTO, CA - The Golden State has had a long, conflicted history of h ...

By Luke Kyaw and Mathew Seibert SACRAMENTO, CA - The Golden State has had a long, conflicted history of heated political battles over the existence of the death penalty. Now legislation is being intro ...

February 15, 2022
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Judge in Rodney Reed Death Row Evidentiary Hearing Condemned by Innocence Project

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: February 07, 2022
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Judge in Rodney Reed Death Row Evidentiary Hearing Condemned by Innocence Project

By Amy Berberyan AUSTIN, TX – This past week, the Innocence Project released a statement condemning Judge ...

By Amy Berberyan AUSTIN, TX – This past week, the Innocence Project released a statement condemning Judge J. D. Langley for abandoning his duty as a neutral party during Rodney Reed’s evidentiary hear ...

February 07, 2022
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CA Governor Reaffirms Plan to Move Condemned, Dismantling Nation’s Largest Death Row

Posted by Stacie Guevara
|Date: February 06, 2022
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CA Governor Reaffirms Plan to Move Condemned, Dismantling Nation’s Largest Death Row

By Stacie Guevara SACRAMENTO, CA – California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is planning to move all condemned ...

By Stacie Guevara SACRAMENTO, CA – California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is planning to move all condemned incarcerated to different prisons within two years, dismantling the nation’s largest death row ...

February 06, 2022
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Death Penalty Abolition Group Charges Wrongful Conviction Rates Mean U.S. Should Abolish the Death Penalty

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: January 22, 2022
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Death Penalty Abolition Group Charges Wrongful Conviction Rates Mean U.S. Should Abolish the Death Penalty

By Tiffany Thai SAN FRANCISCO, CA - One in every 8.3 people put on death row has been wrongfully convicte ...

By Tiffany Thai SAN FRANCISCO, CA - One in every 8.3 people put on death row has been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. since executions resumed in the 1970s, according to the De ...

January 22, 2022
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Oklahoma Death Row Man Hopes for Stay of Execution as Questions of Mental Competency Grow

Posted by Sophia Barberini
|Date: December 08, 2021
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Oklahoma Death Row Man Hopes for Stay of Execution as Questions of Mental Competency Grow

By Katherine Coviello and Sophia Barberini PITTSBURG COUNTY, OK – Wade Greeley Lay, on death row in Oklah ...

By Katherine Coviello and Sophia Barberini PITTSBURG COUNTY, OK – Wade Greeley Lay, on death row in Oklahoma after being convicted of murder, is set to be executed Jan. 6, despite questions of his men ...

December 08, 2021
| by Sophia Barberini

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ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: November 27, 2021
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ACLU Asks US Supreme Court to Review Status of Georgia Death Row Prisoner with Intellectual Disability

By Amy Berberyan WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking for the U.S. Supre ...

By Amy Berberyan WASHINGTON, DC -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to review Rodney Young’s status on Georgia’s death row, in a filing made earlier this ...

November 27, 2021
| by Amy Berberyan

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