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MyAJC
February 1, 2018
13 at Hays State Prison in Summerville in northwest Georgia. ... With just over 52,000 Georgia prisoners, the state had 15 inmate suicides in 2017, equal to a rate of 28.5 per ... read more ... In 2017, one of the inmates who is suspected of killing himself was on Death Row and three were in isolation cells.
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
January 29, 2018
McBride first met Kelly Gissendaner — at the time, the only woman on Georgia's death row — while directing a theology certificate program for the Atlanta Theological Association at Metro State Prison for Women. “(Kelly) arrived for class beaming with excitement about the journey she was about to beginÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 22, 2018
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, whose office would defend the California law in court, declined to comment on the case. ... The Arizona case is comparable to the 1972 Georgia case, “a substantive decision that was applied retroactively to everyone on Death Row across the country,” Dunham said.
Greenville News
January 20, 2018
Convicted in 1992 of killing 70-year-old John Watson of Covington, Georgia, Terrell appealed and lost, then challenged Georgia's secrecy law which shields ... Thirty-six inmates await execution on the state's death row, according to the state attorney general's office, and 11 have reached the point at whichÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
January 16, 2018
To Elizabeth Beck, a professor of social work at Georgia State University and co-author of In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families, the monster metaphor is destructive. In the mind of the public, Beck says, "by extension, you as a family member are either a monster or you'veÃÂ ...
Newburgh Gazette
January 8, 2018
The Supreme Court gave a death row prisoner in Georgia renewed life Monday because of a juror's racist comments. ... Previously, a state post-conviction court rejected Tharpe's petition, finding that he could not prove juror misconduct because Georgia law doesn't allow parties to impeach jury verdicts withÃÂ ...
In Justice Today (blog)
January 4, 2018
[Fair Punishment Project / Prisoners on Ohio's Execution List] ... In Georgia, there have only been three new death sentences in the last five years. ... Only a single person has been sent to the state's death row in the past three and a half years, and most of the state's prosecutors are no longer seeking theÃÂ ...
The Marshall Project
January 3, 2018
As the death penalty disappears, it has been replaced by life without parole, a punishment that California prisoner Kenneth Hartman once called "death by another name.” In Texas ... It takes a DA and a jury to send someone to death row, but it takes a massive state bureaucracy to kill him. Courts mustÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 24, 2017
Georgia invalidated death sentences across the country, including those of 16 people on Arizona's death row. Outraged politicians vowed to bring back capital punishment; one Phoenix Republican declared his candidacy for Maricopa County attorney that very day. The next day, Republican State Sen.
13WMAZ
December 22, 2017
The electric chair hasn't been powered on in Georgia since 2001, but in the 1980's it was where condemned prisoners went to die. Bobby Allen was a corrections officer on death row in Jackson and said what he saw there changed his life. He spent six years working with the inmates and escorted some toÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
December 21, 2017
While much of the focus in the ongoing fight to abolish capital punishment in the United States has been on the Supreme Court, state legislatures, governors ... “And Philadelphia, which in 2013 ranked third in its death row (cases), imposing an average of one death sentence every other year, just elected aÃÂ ...
CBS News
September 26, 2017
ATLANTA -- A Georgia prisoner who faces execution this week lost his bid for clemency Monday before the only state authority with the power to commute a death sentence. Keith Leroy Tharpe, known to friends and family as Bo, is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson for the SeptemberÃÂ ...
BBC News
May 17, 2017
A grinning death row inmate in the US state of Georgia used his final words at his execution to insult the witnesses. JW Ledford Jr's lawyers argued death by firing squad would be more humane as lethal injection would be too painful. But witnesses said the 45-year-old - who was served a 5,000-calorie lastÃÂ ...
Belfast Telegraph
December 31, 1999
And yet, upon returning to Indiana State Prison's death row for his latest documentary, that was far from the case. "I found the place more awful this time," he says, sadly, before explaining: "The prison was on lockdown, for five weeks. The concomitant of all that is the place is very grubby and dirty and they'reÃÂ ...
The Northern Echo
December 31, 1999
Five years since Sir Trevor McDonald first visited Indiana State Prison, the news veteran is back. He talks to Georgia Humphreys about his experiences and the changing world of journalism. After interviewing Saddam Hussein, entering the secret world of the Mafia and reporting from war zones, you'd thinkÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
The 156 death row inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons go to sleep every night the same way they wake up: in an 8-by-12 foot cell illuminated by artificial ... “The fact that, for these prisoners, solitary confinement is automatic and permanent until either the prisoner is executed, or dies of natural causes,ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
President Donald Trump will hold a listening session on prison reform Thursday that will focus on improving prisoner reentry–the process of preparing ... In attendance will be three Republican governors who instituted criminal justice reform in their states–Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia, Governor MattÃÂ ...
In Justice Today (blog)
November 22, 2017
[Fair Punishment Project / Prisoners on Ohio's Execution List] ... In Georgia, there have only been three new death sentences in the last five years. .... In Los Angeles, the county with the largest number of death row inmates, ..... that of current practice in the United States, where the average executed prisoner ...
Reno Gazette Journal
November 10, 2017
A lawyer for the state attorney general's office said they plan to .... Georgia and Alabama within the past three years, according to the ... The Supreme Court has also allowed states to execute prisoners ... a death-row prisoner must not only prove their execution method is cruel, but also offer an alternative.
Jackson Free Press
November 9, 2017
Mississippi right now plans to execute prisoners using a three-drug process, ... urging a federal judge to block death row inmates suing the state from ... #Texas, Georgia and Missouri use pentobarbital custom-made from raw ...
WTVA
November 9, 2017
Lawyers for the state of Mississippi argued Wednesday that ... urging a federal judge to block death row inmates suing the state from ... Mississippi right now plans to execute prisoners using a three-drug ... Texas, Georgia and Missouri use pentobarbital custom-made from raw ingredients by pharmacies.
CorrectionsOne
November 8, 2017
Forensic Magazine found that seven states hold prisoners whose DNA had not ... of people – 1,500 people who are either on death row or spending the rest of ... For instance, if a prisoner gets out but violates the terms of their release and are ... Georgia did not immediately collect the DNA of inmates who were locked up ...
Texas Tribune
November 2, 2017
Bobby Moore, a man who has been on death row since 1980, will have ... but the questions surrounding the prisoner's mental capacity led to a ... Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas and Florida — have created hurdles for proving the disability. ... The Texas Attorney General's Office, which represents the state in ...
The Marshall Project
October 18, 2017
For years, the number of prisoners put to death in the United States has been in decline. ... Ohio had been tied up in the courts since prisoner Dennis McGuire visibly ... In 2016, Georgia had more executions than any other state as it ... making key decisions about whether he should be sent to death row.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
October 4, 2017
In the United States, it's believed those with intellectual abilities far below ... by treating a psychologist's evaluation of the prisoner as though it were ... In that instance, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which ... of their pre-prison functioning, when few on Death Row had people treat them that way.
KTVQ Billings News
October 4, 2017
There were 2,902 people on death row in the United States on ... Georgia. The Supreme Court effectively voids 40 death penalty ... December 15, 2006 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends the death penalty after the execution of prisoner ... His actions will not affect two prisoners currently on death row:Â ...
CNN
September 26, 2017
The Supreme Court of Georgia declined to hear Tharpe's claims on Tuesday, ... nonprofit that offers free legal representation to prisoners on death row, .... Georgia law states that juror testimony cannot be used to impeach the ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
September 26, 2017
ATLANTA — A Georgia prisoner who faces execution this week lost his bid for clemency Monday before the only state authority with the power ...
JOE
September 23, 2017
A death row prisoner in Georgia in the United States of America has opted to have a big blow-out for a final meal before being executed at the end of September.
NBCNews.com
September 22, 2017
Georgia death row prisoner Keith Tharpe, shown here with his grandchild, ... court to step in and stop the execution scheduled for Tuesday in Georgia. ... Kammer said he will file new appeals in state court and with the U.S. ...
NEWS.com.au
September 21, 2017
Georgia prisoner Keith Tharpe requests a lot of food for his final meal ahead ... In most states, death row inmates are allowed to request almost ...
Mother Jones
May 25, 2017
Arthur had been on death row for more than 30 years and survived ... is capable of rendering prisoners insensate to the excruciating pain of .... Georgia and ruled that the death penalty was not cruel and unusual punishment.
BBC News
May 17, 2017
A grinning death row inmate in the US state of Georgia used his final words ... Still smiling, the prisoner said: "You can kiss my white trash ass.".
CNN
May 12, 2017
(CNN) A Georgia inmate is asking to be executed by a firing squad because he says lethal ... allowed by Georgia, but the state only authorizes lethal injection, the lawyers wrote. ... Ledford has been on death row 25 years.
Atlanta Magazine
April 5, 2017
At this point, a prisoner can only be spared if the state's pardons and parole board grants ... Only six Georgia death row prisoners have walked free since 1975.
Solitary Watch
August 23, 2017
An attorney for a man on Arkansas's death row petitioned Governor Asa Hutchinson to deny the state's Attorney General's request to set a date for his execution. ... The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has concluded an ... which mandated that prisoners in solitary confinement who have serious mentalÃÂ ...
KRTV Great Falls News
August 18, 2017
There were 2,902 people on death row in the United States on ... Georgia. The Supreme Court effectively voids 40 death penalty ... December 15, 2006 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends the death penalty after the execution of prisoner ... His actions will not affect two prisoners currently on death row:ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 17, 2017
The state provided that information Monday in an ongoing lawsuit over ... Lawyers for death row inmates, though, are asking U.S. District Judge ... Craig notes Texas, Georgia and Missouri are all still using pentobarbital in executions. ... Lawyers for Jordan and others argue prisoners feel pain as drugs areÃÂ ...
Independent Catholic News
August 16, 2017
... Penalty in the United States and elsewhere, having campaigned and written ... of contemporary death row – sometimes detailing circumstances every bit ... into 'Ol' Sparky' in the Georgia death house: “When the executioner throws ... the electric current through the body, the prisoner cringes from torture,ÃÂ ...
Raconteur
July 31, 2017
DPIC research highlights that 159 death row prisoners have been exonerated .... “Whenever Larry became depressed, the state of Georgia in all its ... TaiChin Preyor, a black man, and the latest prisoner to be put to death,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 27, 2017
Inmate: I Strangled Prisoners to Try to Land on Death Row .... a maximum security facility a few miles from the state capitol in Columbia.
Mother Jones
May 25, 2017
Arthur had been on death row for more than 30 years and survived ... is capable of rendering prisoners insensate to the excruciating pain of .... Georgia and ruled that the death penalty was not cruel and unusual punishment.
BBC News
May 17, 2017
A grinning death row inmate in the US state of Georgia used his final words ... Still smiling, the prisoner said: "You can kiss my white trash ass.".
CNN
May 12, 2017
(CNN) A Georgia inmate is asking to be executed by a firing squad because he says lethal ... allowed by Georgia, but the state only authorizes lethal injection, the lawyers wrote. ... Ledford has been on death row 25 years.
Atlanta Magazine
April 5, 2017
At this point, a prisoner can only be spared if the state's pardons and parole board grants ... Only six Georgia death row prisoners have walked free since 1975.
CNN
January 12, 2017
Roof is now the 63rd person on federal death row. .... The first (sodium thiopental or pentobarbital) puts the prisoner to sleep; the second ... their mother and begged the state of Georgia to not kill their one remaining parent.
Business Insider
January 11, 2017
In most states and various countries where the death penalty is legal, it's customary to give sentenced prisoners a special last meal at theirÃÂ ...
People's World
March 22, 2017
The ghastly assembly line of slaughter operated by the state of Arkansas stands in stark contrast to the steep decline in actual use of the death penalty and changing public attitudes toward it.
Jackson Free Press
March 22, 2017
#Richard Jordan, then 29, needed money, so he drove to Gulfport, Miss., looking for it back in 1976. There, he called the Gulf National Bank, asked to speak with a loan officer and was directed to Charles Marter.
National Catholic Reporter
March 20, 2017
Only five states carried out executions in 2016: Georgia (9), Texas (7), Alabama (2), Missouri (1) and Florida (1). As of this writing, five ... As a corollary, blacks make up 42 percent of those on death row, while the 2010 U.S. census showed blacks ...
