Death row articles
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Lawmakers vote down bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentenced
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
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Witch Trial in Oklahoma: How the Prosecutorial Slut-Shaming of Brenda Andrew Put Her on Death Row
In the state’s closing arguments jurors were treated to the spectacle of the prosecutor in Brenda’s case, Gayland Gieger, hauling a suitcase toward the jury box, from which he extracted a pair of her thong panties, which he waved in front of them, saying, to audible gasps in the courtroom: “This [dangling a pink thong] is what we found in [the suitcase]. It’s been introduced into evidence. The grieving widow packs this [brandishing a red thong] to run off with her boyfriend. The grieving widow...
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Houston man convicted of murdering toddler in 2001 to be removed from death row over intellectual disability
Tomas Gallo, 49, was convicted of capital murder in the death of 3-year-old Destiny Flores, who was sexually assaulted, bitten, bruised and thrown against the side of a bathtub, according to court records. Gallo now faces a life sentence with the possibility of parole after a Wednesday ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.