Publications & Testimony
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Jan 05, 2016
Prosecutor Says Change Needed if Wyoming Wants to Keep the Death Penalty
Natrona County, Wyoming District Attorney Mike Blonigen (pictured) recently called for a reconsideration of the state’s death penalty after a federal judge overturned the death sentence of Dale Wayne Eaton, a decade after Blonigen obtained it in 2004. At the time U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson reversed Eaton’s sentence in 2014, Eaton was the only person on Wyoming’s death…
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Jan 04, 2016
EDITORIALS: Newspapers Stress Findings from DPIC’s 2015 Year End Report
Several newspapers across the country featured themes from DPIC’s 2015 Year End Report in editorials and opinion pieces at the end of…
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Jan 01, 2016
Outcomes of Death Warrants in 2015
Dec 31, 2015
Innocents Lost: Remembering The Wrongfully Condemned Who Died in 2015
Dec 31, 2015
Case Summaries of Executed Women
Velma Barfield in North Carolina on November 2, 1984 — She was in a relationship with Stuart Taylor who was a widower. She forged checks on Taylor’s account to pay for her addiction. Fearing that she had been found out, she mixed an arsenic based rat poison into his beer and tea. Taylor became very ill. As his condition worsened, she took him to the hospital where he died a few days later. There was an autopsy which found that the cause of Taylor’s death was arsenic…
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Women Executed in the US: 1900 – 2021
Date of Execution Name Race State Execution Method 1. 7/17/1903 DORA WRIGHT B OK Hanging 2. 12/8/1905 MARY ROGERS W VT Hanging 3. 3/29/1909 MARY FARMER W NY Electrocution 4. 8/16/1912 VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN B VA Electrocution 5. 1/13/1922 PATTIE PERDUE B MS Hanging 6. 1/12/1928 RUTH SNYDER W NY Electrocution 7. 2/1/1929 ADA LEBOEUF W LA Hanging 8. 1/24/1930 SELENA GILMORE B AL Electrocution 9. 2/21/1930 EVA…
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State Execution Rates (through 2023)
*Death penalty…
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Likely Innocent But Died on Death Row
Donnis MusgroveAlabama: Conviction, 1988; Died on Death Row, 2015David RogersAlabama: Conviction, 1988; Died on Death Row,…
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Dec 31, 2015
Stays of Execution in 2015
Dec 30, 2015
Missouri Juror Who Voted for Death Says New Evidence Would Have Changed Sentencing Decision
In 1997, a St. Louis County, Missouri jury unanimously voted to sentence David Barnett to death. Eighteen years later, after learning horrific details of the physical and sexual abuse to which Barnett had been subjected as a small child, Andrew Dazey — the jury foreman in Barnett’s trial — says “[t]here’s no way” he would have voted for death. At trial, Barnett’s lawyer presented some evidence of his client’s abuse, mental illness, and suicide attempts. However, he failed to…
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