Entries tagged with “Partial Innocence”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Nov 12, 2019
New Podcast: “Unrequited Innocence” with Rob Warden and John Seasly
At least 166 wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners have been exonerated since the death penalty was reinstituted in the United States in 1973. That number, however, may only scratch the surface in assessing the degree to which innocent men and women are being sent to U.S. death…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Oct 28, 2019
Georgia Prisoner Says He is Not the Shooter, Seeks Stay of Execution to Permit DNA Testing
Supported by the murder victim’s daughter, a Georgia death-row prisoner who is scheduled for execution October 30, 2019 is asking the federal courts to grant him a stay to permit DNA testing that, he says, will prove that he did not commit the killing for which he is on death row. Ray Cromartie (pictured) admits his involvement in the robbery in which Richard Slysz was murdered, but maintains that his co-defendant shot the…