The United States and Cuba will take a step further towards rekindling their relationship. The two nations plan on announcing the reopening of their embassies…
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of two murders and sent to death row for crimes he did not commit. Thirty years and several appeals…
On Friday, Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of prison a free man after spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not…
Fresh off of her success from ‘Selma,’ director Ava DuVernay is on to her next project. It’s reported that the Los Angeles-bred director will direct…
Shocking Number Of Innocent People Sentenced To Death, Study Finds More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably…
Louisiana man, Glenn Ford, spent nearly three decades behind bars on death row for a crime he did not commit before walking free earlier this…
The Associated Press has obtained an audio recording of Troy Davis’ last words before he was put to death on September 21. After a long day of emotional goodbyes, the AP reports that Davis knelt in his prison cell and began to pray 15 minutes before he was scheduled to die. Davis’ execution for the […]
The Georgia state Board of Pardons and Paroles has declined to commute the death sentence for Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of killing off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. The AJC reports that the board released its decision just after 8 a.m., after spending an entire day hearing from Davis’ supporters and then prosecutors […]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week will make an inquiry of the United States Justice Department into the scheduled execution of Troy Davis in Savannah, Georgia. The rights group is pushing for a stay of execution. Davis was convicted and sentenced to death for the fatal 1989 shooting and killing […]
The Georgia Department of Corrections has set the execution of Troy Anthony Davis for 7 p.m. on Sept. 21, the AJC reports. The Department of Corrections scheduled the execution date after a Chatham County judge signed a death warrant for Davis, who was convicted of killing an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989. Also, the […]
From the AJC.com: A federal judge on Tuesday emphatically rejected Troy Anthony Davis’ claims that he was wrongly convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. In a 172-page order, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. said Davis failed to prove his innocence during an extraordinary hearing in June ordered by the U.S. Supreme […]
