Publications & Testimony
Items: 2501 — 2510
Jan 06, 2016
Report Finds ‘Failure of Leadership’ by Orange County District Attorney’s Office in Jailhouse Informant Scandal
A new report by a special committee created by Orange County, California District Attorney Tony Rackauckas (pictured) cites a “failure of leadership” as the root cause of a multi-decade history of prosecutorial misconduct involving jailhouse informants. Documents obtained by defense lawyers and The Orange County Register had revealed what the paper called “a secret and well-organized network of snitches” that had been hidden from defense counsel and the courts. In…
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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