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Metropolitan News-Enterprise
March 21, 2018
Meanwhile, a candidate whose ballot designation of " Police Commissioner/Attorney is undergoing a court challenge, has said the Burbank chief of Police, who executed a declaration disputing the accuracy of that description, is unknowledgeable of the matter. The candidate, criminal defense attorney ...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 4, 2018
Brian's death, followed by the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, propelled my work to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut. It was built on the belief that true justice depends on our ability to extend humanity to others - even as they deny it in themselves. There's a running joke that everyone in ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 3, 2018
Chan has since twice stood trial for first-degree murder, a capital offense that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison on conviction. His first two trials -- held in ... Special prosecutor Troy Davis said Friday that he would file a motion related to Chan's claim of self-defense. Davis and another ...
Long Beach Post
February 21, 2018
Prosecutors said both men are documented gang members. King met the 20-year-old woman in Long Beach several months after encountering her online in 2015 and made the woman work for him as a prostitute, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. Mark met the 15-year-old girl in a ... Prison Human Trafficking
Long Beach Press Telegram
October 26, 2017
On Thursday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced her to 10 years and eight months in prison, said Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. Five other defendants, including the pregnant woman's boyfriend, have already been sentenced for their part in the plot, according to Davis. ...
MyAJC
September 27, 2017
Tuesday night's dramatic stay -- handed down after Tharpe had consumed his final meal and was awaiting execution -- marks the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has put the brakes on a lethal injection in Georgia since they stopped Troy Davis' in 2008. Davis would eventually die at the state's ... death row inmate
The Guardian
September 26, 2017
A Georgia prisoner whose jury trial was marred by racial bias was set to be executed on Tuesday night, barring an eleventh-hour intervention by the ... The clemency application included testimonials from Tharpe's mother, one of his daughters, other family members, prison staff, clergy members and friends.
In These Times
September 17, 2016
Jordan Taylor remembers precisely when Troy Davis was executed. It was 11:08 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2011, less than an hour before Taylor's 18th birthday. "I had never heard his name before," says Taylor, who says he nonetheless attended a rally fellow students at SUNY New Paltz organized for a death ...
The Guardian
September 22, 2013
Since 1973, 142 people have been released from death row throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful conviction. ... we reveal the impact that capital punishment has, not just on the condemned prisoner, but on his family, his friends, and even the guards and prison officials whose job it is ...
CNN
September 22, 2011
Troy Davis may be dead, but his execution Thursday in the American state of Georgia has made him the poster boy for the global movement to end the death penalty. World figures ... "We strongly deplore that the numerous appeals for clemency were not heeded," the French foreign ministry said. "There ...
Patch.com
January 25, 2018
Mark pleaded no contest to human trafficking of a minor for a commercial sex act, and is facing six years in state prison. ... the 20-year-old woman in Long Beach several months after encountering her online in 2015 and made her work for him as a prostitute, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 3, 2018
Troy Davis's mother Virginia Davis was also said to have died of a broken heart. Her son, convicted of the killing of a Savannah police officer in 1989, was the center of a worldwide movement calling on clemency and an end to the death penalty. Virginia died five months before Troy's September 2011ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 15, 2017
To my mind, that is understandable if not ideal: understandable because innocents serving prison sentences or awaiting execution suffer a much graver injustice than guilty parties whose .... That petitioner, Troy Davis, was subsequently found not to have produced such evidence and was executed. DasseyÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
December 11, 2017
Tubbs, a Stockton native, met Asare when their respective Stanford University black student groups came together following Troy Davis' death. Davis was executed in 2011 for the 1989 killing of a Georgia police officer despite evidence pointing toward his innocence. Tubbs had proposed to Asare on aÃÂ ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
October 26, 2017
On Thursday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced her to 10 years and eight months in prison, said Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. Five other defendants, including the pregnant woman's boyfriend, have already been sentenced for their part in the plot, according to Davis. ProsecutorsÃÂ ...
MyAJC
September 27, 2017
Tuesday night's dramatic stay — handed down after Tharpe had consumed his final meal and was awaiting execution — marks the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has put the brakes on a lethal injection in Georgia since they stopped Troy Davis' in 2008. Davis would eventually die at the state's handsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 26, 2017
A Georgia prisoner whose jury trial was marred by racial bias was set to be executed on Tuesday night, barring an eleventh-hour intervention by the ... The clemency application included testimonials from Tharpe's mother, one of his daughters, other family members, prison staff, clergy members and friends.
WABE 90.1 FM
May 24, 2017
At her 2015 execution, Kelly Gissendaner, shown speaking at a 2011 graduation ceremony at Lee Arrendale State Prison, in Alto, Georgia, sobbed through ... Kelly Gissendaner, who was the only woman on Georgia's death row when she was executed in September 2015, sobbed through apologies to theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
September 20, 2016
Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis. ... During NCADP's annual convening, a woman, with her three-year-old son in tow, came up to me and told me that her brother Troy was on death row in ... As I was leaving the prison, I ran into Troy's sister, Martina, in the parking lot.
In These Times
September 17, 2016
Jordan Taylor remembers precisely when Troy Davis was executed. It was 11:08 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2011, less than an hour before Taylor's 18th birthday. “I had never heard his name before,” says Taylor, who says he nonetheless attended a rally fellow students at SUNY New Paltz organized for a death rowÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 22, 2013
Since 1973, 142 people have been released from death row throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful conviction. ... we reveal the impact that capital punishment has, not just on the condemned prisoner, but on his family, his friends, and even the guards and prison officials whose job it is toÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 21, 2011
Proclaiming his innocence, Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday night, his life — and the hopes of supporters worldwide ... said that the vote by the Georgia parole board to deny clemency to Mr. Davis was so close that he hoped there might be a chance to save him from execution.
World Socialist Web Site
December 31, 1999
The UAW international official involved in both cases was Troy Davis, who served between 2014 and 2015 as vice president of the Making our Children Smile foundation, a dubious charity run by now retired UAW ... She faces a maximum of 27 months in prison under sentencing guidelines plus restitution.
Las Cruces Sun-News
December 31, 1999
Santa Fe County sheriff's deputies Tai Chan and Jeremy Martin had stopped for the night on their way home from a prisoner transfer. ... It is our hope that attorneys Troy Davis and Devin Chapman will be able to look at the witnesses and the evidence in a new light and bring a fresh perspective to an oldÃÂ ...
Nonprofit Quarterly
November 29, 2017
Today, race continues to play a significant role in who is executed. ... 2011 execution in Georgia of Troy Davis, an African American executed ...
Coldwater Daily Reporter
November 2, 2017
Branch County Medical Examiner Troy Davis testified that he was at the scene when the car was ... He could now face up to life in prison.
Long Beach Press Telegram
October 26, 2017
Judge gives prison to attackers who wanted pregnant woman to ... years and eight months in prison, said Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis.
The Real News Network
October 16, 2017
... had seen Troy Davis executed and had seen Trayvon Martin's killer .... We have the J20 arrests of over 200 people facing life in prison for ...
Long Beach Post
September 28, 2017
... said Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis of the Victim Impact Program, ... Jahn faces up to eight years and four months in state prison and will ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
September 27, 2017
Jahn faces up to eight years and four months in state prison if she's convicted as charged. She would also be forced to register as a sex ...
MyAJC
September 27, 2017
For Georgia death row inmate, high court's stay may only buy time ... put the brakes on a lethal injection in Georgia since they stopped Troy Davis' in 2008. ... of a scheduled execution,” said Brian Kammer, one of Tharpe's lawyers. ... State, said Tharpe could still be executed in the coming days if the stay is ...
The Guardian
September 26, 2017
A Georgia prisoner whose jury trial was marred by racial bias was set to be ... Keith Leroy Tharpe, 59, lost his bid for clemency on Monday before the state ... in the 'good' black folks category in my book” and so should be executed. ... The state is also where in 2011 Troy Davis was put to death despite the ...
OCRegister
September 19, 2017
... turned 18 in 2011, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. ... state prison and be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
September 18, 2017
... 2008 and July 2011, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. ... in state prison and lifetime sex offender registration, according to the ...
WABE 90.1 FM
May 24, 2017
At her 2015 execution, Kelly Gissendaner, shown speaking at a 2011 graduation ceremony at Lee Arrendale State Prison, in Alto, Georgia, ... the only woman on Georgia's death row when she was executed in September 2015, ... Troy Davis, who inspired rallies and vigils in multiple countries after his guilt ...
Socialist Worker Online
April 10, 2017
In the era of lethal injection, these old methods of execution appear grossly macabre. ... which includes experimenting on death row prisoners with a variety of drugs, ... clemency appeals can't be initiated until the execution date is set. ... cases like that of Troy Davis in Georgia who was executed in 2011, ...
Huffington Post
September 20, 2016
Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis. ... he played in raising his nephew from the confines of his prison cell on death row. ... Troy is not the only innocent person to be executed in recent memory.
In These Times
September 17, 2016
Jordan Taylor remembers precisely when Troy Davis was executed. ... at SUNY New Paltz organized for a death row inmate they told him was innocent. ... XVI and former FBI Director William Sessions appealed for clemency.
MyAJC
September 28, 2015
Georgia executed its first Death Row inmate of 2017 — J.W. Ledford — on May 17. The state executed nine inmates in 2016, more than any other year since ...
The Guardian
September 22, 2013
Two years after Troy Davis' execution, our fight to end the death penalty lives ... Since 1973, 142 people have been released from death row throughout the ... In this same period, more than 1,000 people have been executed, ... not just on the condemned prisoner, but on his family, his friends, and even the ...
New York Times
September 21, 2011
Protesters outside the prison after Troy Davis was executed on .... The Innocence Project, which has had a hand in the exoneration of 17 death-row inmates ... the execution, and the list of people asking for clemency included ...
SHSU Houstonian Online
December 31, 1999
He has even come hours near being executed, but was granted a stay ... that no innocent defendant is sent to prison over a crime they did not ...
MyNewsLA.com
September 15, 2017
... 2008 and July 2011, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis. ... in state prison and lifetime sex offender registration, according to theÃÂ ...
OCRegister
September 14, 2017
... 2011, according to Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis of the Victim Impact ... possible sentence of eight years and four months in state prison.
columbusunderground
September 6, 2017
... system when she was doing research for a screenplay called Clemency. ... “Troy Davis was a black man who was executed on September 21, 2011. His execution ignited hundreds of thousands of people protesting around the world. ... for helping share these stories beyond the prison wall,” she says.
columbusunderground
September 5, 2017
... system when she was doing research for a screenplay called Clemency. ... “Troy Davis was a black man who was executed on September 21, 2011. His execution ignited hundreds of thousands of people protesting around the world. ... for helping share these stories beyond the prison wall,” she says.
Christian Post
September 1, 2017
The parole board in Georgia denied a last-ditch clemency appeal by Davis, a Georgia man set to be executed in a high-profile case for theÃÂ ...
Springfield News Sun
August 21, 2017
Troy Davis, convicted of having weapons while under disability, three years prison with credit for jail time served. Sara A. Wissel and Daniel C.
KTLA
July 13, 2017
Jamelvin Moore, 32, was sentenced to ten years in state prison while ... Deputy District Attorney Troy Davis, who prosecuted the case, said in aÃÂ ...
WABE 90.1 FM
May 24, 2017
At her 2015 execution, Kelly Gissendaner, shown speaking at a 2011 graduation ceremony at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto, Georgia, sobbed ... woman on Georgia's death row when she was executed in September 2015, ... Troy Davis, who inspired rallies and vigils in multiple countries after his guiltÃÂ ...
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