Entries tagged with “Terry Williams”
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Apr 15, 2020
Beginning April 15, Death Row Stories, Innocence Files to Feature Wrongful Death-Penalty Convictions
Beginning April 15, 2020, two television series — one a new program from Netflix and the other new episodes of a returning series from CNN — will highlight stories of wrongful convictions, including some death-penalty cases. The new Netflix documentary series, The Innocence Files, will debut on April 15, with its first episode featuring the case of Texas death-row exoneree Alfred DeWayne Brown. The fifth season of CNN’s series, Death Row Stories, will premiere on April 19 with an episode that…
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Dec 03, 2015
Sexually Abused Teen Who Killed His Abuser Faces Execution Despite Inadequate Defense, Judge’s Conflict of Interest
Terry Williams was barely 18 when he killed Amos Norwood, a man who had been sexually abusing him since Williams was 13. A recent article in Mother Jones discusses how the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office — which championed the cause of sexual abuse victims during landmark prosecutions of several clergy abuse cases — is aggressively seeking to execute Williams, employing the very stereotypes about abuse victims it publicly rejected in the clergy trials. At the time of those trials, D.A.
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Victims' Families
,New Voices
,Mar 20, 2015
NEW VOICES: Murder Victim’s Widow Supports Clemency for Husband’s Killer
Mamie Norwood, whose husband, Amos, was killed by Pennsylvania death row prisoner Terry Williams (pictured), recently wrote a letter to two state officials asking them to “stop trying to execute Terry Williams.” Norwood’s letter was addressed to Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams and State Representative Mike Vereb, who oppose the death penalty moratorium imposed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. Vereb recently introduced a legislative resolution stating that the moratorium…