by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 27, 2014 | Race
Amnesty International Puerto Rico has fronted a campaign for the exoneration of Death Row inmates by displaying food requested by the wrongfully accused before their deaths. Here were their last meals, photographed by James Reynolds. Ruben Cantu, executed for murder...
by Kathleen Lucas | Dec 31, 2013 | Race
Taken From Courthouse News: (CN) – Vacating the death sentence imposed against a convicted murderer, the Pennsylvania high court called it “shocking” that jurors were told that killing an unborn child is a capital offense. Harold Murray IV was...
by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 5, 2013 | Aja Beech, government misconduct
cross-posted from www.newsworks.com On Aug. 21, 2013, a judge in Philadelphia said Jimmy Dennis, convicted 21 years ago of the murder of Chedell Ray Williams, deserved to be retried within 180 days or to be set free. He is still on death row. I remember hearing about...
by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 21, 2013 | Innocence, Kathleen Lucas
It looks like Jimmy Dennis may finally be freed. Today, Senior US District Judge Anita Brody overturned his conviction and ordered his release. Unless, that is, the District Attorney’s office finds a way to retry him. Following a long string of cases involving...