death row

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…

Paula Cooper was 16 when she was sentenced to Death Row for the murder of Bible teacher Ruth Pelke, 78 in 1986. Cooper was the…

In an interview with Los Angeles radio station 93.5 KDAY, former Death Row Records head honcho Suge Knight threatened rapper Rick Ross and questioned if Tupac was really dead. “Nobody seen Tupac dead,” Knight said. “Maybe the question is . . . Pac’s not really dead . . . Pac’s somewhere else.” In the same […]

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 […]

A federal judge on Tuesday emphatically rejected Troy Anthony Davis’ claims that he was wrongly convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. said Davis failed to prove his innocence during a hearing ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court.