Entries tagged with “Ray Cromartie”
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…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 31, 2019
Georgia Supreme Court, Ohio Governor Provisionally Halt Three Executions
Three U.S. executions were halted on October 30, 2019, as the Georgia Supreme Court issued a day-of-execution stay to Ray Jefferson Cromartie and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (pictured) granted warrants of reprieve to the next two death-row prisoners scheduled for execution in Ohio. The actions capped a tumultuous October in which nine of ten scheduled executions did not take place and federal courts stayed two…
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…