Entries tagged with “Ray Krone”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Apr 09, 2002
100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 9, 2002 CONTACT: BRENDA BOWSER (202) 293‑6970…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Apr 09, 2002
DPIC Press Release: 100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA
100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN…
Oct 21, 2004
DPIC SUMMARY: Chicago Tribune Series, “Forensics Under the Microscope”
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE INVESTIGATIVE SERIESChicago Tribune veteran project reporters Flynn McRoberts, Steve Mills and Maurice Possley, together with researcher Judith Marriott, scrutinized criminal cases including “scientific” or forensic evidence, conducting hundreds of interviews across the country and examining thousands of court documents. From October 17, 2004 to October 21, 2004 the Tribune published a five-part investigative series which details the use of forensic evidence…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Feb 18, 2013
MULTIMEDIA: “One For Ten” Introduces Documentaries on Death Row Exonerees
One For Ten is a new collection of documentary films telling the stories of innocent people who were on death row in the U.S. The first film of the series is on Ray Krone, one of the 142 people who have been exonerated and freed from death row since 1973. Krone was released from Arizona’s death row in 2002 after DNA testing showed he did not commit the murder for which he was sentenced to death 10 years earlier. Krone was convicted based…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Aug 18, 2011
NEW RESOURCES: The Causes of Wrongful Convictions
The Innocence Project has launched a new multimedia resource illustrating the main causes of wrongful convictions and the reforms necessary to prevent such mistakes. This interactive tool, “Getting it Right,” features videos, case studies and research on such topics as false confessions, eyewitness identification, informant testimony, and failures by the defense and prosecution. Three death penalty cases are highlighted: Ron Williamson,…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sep 02, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: Maricopa, Arizona — “Outrageously Exploited Power,” “Crippled” Defense, and Five Exonerations
Maricopa County, Arizona imposed 28 death sentences between 2010 and 2015 and, as described in a BuzzFeed news analysis of a new report on outlier death penalty practices, “stands out for its stark examples of the problems found across the counties that most often sentence people to…
Policy Issues
Costs
,Innocence
,Victims' Families
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Mar 05, 2021
Wyoming Senate Committee Passes Bill to Repeal State’s Death Penalty
A Wyoming state senate committee has advanced to the full Senate a bill to repeal the state’s death…