Entries tagged with “Donnie Lance”
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Victims' Families
,Jan 29, 2020
Georgia Executes Donnie Lance Over Protests of Victim’s Children After Denying DNA Testing
Georgia executed Donnie Lance on January 29, 2020 after his requests for DNA testing and a plea for clemency supported by the children he and murder victim Joy Lance shared were…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Feb 07, 2020
States Continue to Oppose DNA Testing in Death Penalty Appeals, Attorneys Ask Why Don’t They Want to Learn the Truth?
The last three men scheduled for execution in Georgia said they did not commit the killing and that DNA testing that was not available at the time of trial could prove it. In two of the cases, victim family members supported the request for testing. Prosecutors opposed the requests, and the courts refused to allow the testing. Two of the three men were executed, with doubts still swirling as to their…