Entries tagged with “Ray Krone”
Military
,Jun 26, 2025
Arizona Legislature Moves Towards Compensating Exonerated Individuals, Including Eleven People Wrongfully Death Sentenced
The Arizona legislature is considering new legislation that will compensate exonerated individuals. HB 2813 was introduced in February by Republican Representative Khyl Powell and easily passed in the Arizona House of Representatives in a 59 – 1 vote two weeks later. The bill is now awaiting consideration by the Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee, and according to reporting by the Daily Independent it is being “considered for inclusion as part of a final budget package.” The bill would…
Issues
Aug 13, 2024
New Analysis: Innocent Death-Sentenced Prisoners Wait Longer than Ever for Exoneration
On July 1, after waiting 41 years for his name to be cleared, Larry Roberts became the 200th person exonerated from death row. A new Death Penalty Information Center analysis finds that Mr. Roberts’ experience illustrates a troubling trend: for innocent death-sentenced prisoners, the length of time between wrongful conviction and exoneration is increasing. In the past twenty years, the average length of time before exoneration has roughly tripled, and 2024 has the highest-ever average wait…
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Victims' Families
,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 penalty. After taking testimony from witnesses including the state public defender’s office, family members of murder victims, a death-row exoneree, anti-death-penalty activists, religious organizations, and a national expert on capital punishment, the all-Republican Senate Revenue Committee voted 4 – 1 on March 4, 2021 to pass Senate File 150. The vote marked the second time in three years that a…
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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 death.” The report, Too Broken to Fix, by Harvard University’s Fair Punishment Project, studied the nation’s 16 most prolific death-sentencing counties and found that Maricopa County exhibited systemic problems…
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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 largely on circumstantial evidence and bite-mark…
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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, Earl Washington, Jr., and Ray Krone, who collectively…
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Apr 09, 2002
100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 9, 2002 CONTACT: BRENDA BOWSER (202) 293‑6970 bbowser@deathpenaltyinfo.org 100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA DNA evidence vindicates man wrongfully convicted of 1991 murder WASHINGTON, DC — Ray Krone is the 100th innocent person convicted of capital murder to walk free from prison since 1973, according to an announcement made today by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). Krone — who maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration…
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Apr 09, 2002
DPIC Press Release: 100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA
100th DEATH ROW EXONEREE FREED IN ARIZONA DNA evidence vindicates man wrongfully convicted of 1991 murder WASHINGTON, DC — Ray Krone is the 100th innocent person convicted of capital murder to walk free from prison since 1973, according to an announcement made today by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). Krone — who maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration — was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of Kim Ancona, a Phoenix cocktail waitress. He spent three years on…