Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Apr 10, 2018
Twenty-two years after Walter Ogrod (pictured) was sentenced to death for a murder he insists he did …
Innocence
,May 01, 2017
Walter Ogrod was convicted and sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1996 for the 1988 murder of a 4‑year-old girl, whose body was found in a discarded television box. Ogrod, who is developmentally disabled, has long maintained his innocence, but …
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Sentencing Data
,Executions Overview
,Jun 06, 2020
NEWS (6/5/20) — North Carolina: The North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the state legislature’s attempted retroactive repeal of the state’s Racial Justice Act, restoring the rights of approximately 130 death-row prisoners to seek …
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Jul 06, 2020
Former Pennsylvania death-row prisoner Kareem Johnson has been exonerated, thirteen years after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death by a Philadelphia jury. On July 1, 2020, the Phila…
Innocence
,Aug 16, 2021
NBC’s true crime series, Dateline, featured an episode on August 13, 2021 on the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of former Philadelphia death-row prisoner Walter Ogrod (pictured). The episode, entitled “The I…
Conditions on Death Row
,Mar 21, 2020
NEWS (3/21/20): Pennsylvania — In a rare Saturday ruling, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has granted an emergency moti…
Innocence
,Mar 25, 2020
NEWS (3/25/20): Pennsylvania — Citing lack of jurisdiction, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has vacated an emergency order it issued on Saturday that had directed the…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Mar 06, 2020
After a review of the case by its Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has told a state trial court that death-row prisoner Walter Ogrod (pictured) is “likely innocent,” tha…
Innocence
,Jun 21, 2004
In an exclusive two-part series titled “Snitch Work,” Philadelphia’s City Paper explores the possible innocence of Pennsylvania death row inmate Walter Ogrod. Investigative writer Tom Lowenstein describes Ogrod’s first trial, which resulted in a m…
Innocence
,Conditions on Death Row
,Mar 20, 2020
Exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus, a Philadelphia death-row prisoner who prosecutors now acknowledge is “likely innocent” and whose potential release has been delayed by the Philadelphia …
Innocence
,Victims' Families
,New Voices
,Apr 09, 2020
Saying she wanted justice for her murdered four-year-old daughter, not “a closed case with an innocent person in jail,” Sharon Fahy has joined with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and defense lawyers in the fight to im…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Jun 09, 2020
Twenty-eight years after Philadelphia prosecutors first sought to take his life for the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, Walter Ogrod (pictured, second from right, with members of his defense team) has b…
