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May 17, 2021

Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of May 10, 2021

NEWS (5/14/21) — North Carolina: A Rowan County trial judge has resentenced William Barnes to consecutive life sentences for the murders of an elderly North Carolina couple in 1992, after the county district attorney’s office

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May 02, 2019

Estate of Executed Tennessee Prisoner Seeks DNA Testing to Establish His Innocence

Tennessee executed Sedley Alley in 2006 for the brutal rape and murder of Marine Lance Corporal Suzanne Collins, after having denied him DNA testing that his lawyers believed could have established his innocence. …

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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…

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Oct 25, 2019

Tennessee Court to Decide Whether to Test DNA that Could Exonerate Man Executed in 2006

A Shelby County (Memphis) judge has heard argument and will rule on November 18, 2019 whether to allow DNA testing in a case that could show whether the state of Tennessee executed an innocent man in June of 2006. On October 14, l…

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Feb 05, 2021

Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court Hears Appeal for Posthumous DNA Testing in Sedley Alley Case

Lawyers for the daughter of a man executed by Tennessee have asked a state appeals court to permit DNA testing that could prove his innocence. In a virtual hearing before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on February 3, 2021 (see

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Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of May 10, 2021

Policy Issues

Estate of Executed Tennessee Prisoner Seeks DNA Testing to Establish His Innocence

Policy Issues

States Continue to Oppose DNA Testing in Death Penalty Appeals, Attorneys Ask Why Don’t They Want to Learn the Truth?

Policy Issues

Tennessee Court to Decide Whether to Test DNA that Could Exonerate Man Executed in 2006

Policy Issues

Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court Hears Appeal for Posthumous DNA Testing in Sedley Alley Case