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- Louisiana inmate likely to be freed after 30 years on death row: “Glenn Ford, who has spent 30 years on Louisiana’s death row is likely to be freed soon, after prosecutors filed motions to vacate his conviction and sentence.”
- Rick Perry killed an innocent man: ” It’s becoming clearer by the day that Rick Perry killed an innocent man. Ten years ago, Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted in 1992 on arson charges, for setting a 1991 fire in Corsicana, Texas that killed his three children. But now, newly uncovered evidence suggests that Willingham, who maintained his innocence until his death, was in fact an innocent man.”
- Doctor appointed for James Holmes’s second sanity exam: “A psychiatrist has been appointed to conduct a second sanity evaluation of the man charged with killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater, but the doctor’s name hasn’t been released.”
- “I was on death row, and I was innocent”: ” Edward Lee Elmore’s story, which is the focus of the first episode of CNN’s documentary series, “Death Row Stories,” shows that the capital punishment system does not always get it right. Like Edward, I know this first-hand. I was the first person in the United States to be exonerated from death row because of DNA testing.”
- Garry Rayno’s State House Dome: Vote on death penalty repeal set for Wednesday: “The [NH] House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on repealing the death penalty for those convicted of capital murder.”
- Montour pleads guilty after prosecutors drop death penalty demand: “Before the judge sentenced Montour to prison, defense attorneys and Eric’s parents waited in the courtroom. The Autobees, who had opposed prosecutors’ efforts to seek the death penalty, exhaled heavy sighs of relief and sorrow as they waited.”
- Edward Montour case: Juror blasts “abhorrent” prosecution: “Last week, after battling for more than a decade to execute Edward Montour Jr. for the 2002 murder of guard Eric Autobee at the Limon prison, prosecutors abruptly caved on the second day of his trial, agreeing to a deal that will keep Montour in prison for life without parole.”