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 denied. Lance was convicted …

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 r…