At this point, it’s pretty late in the legal game for John Muhammad, known as The Washington Sniper. Tried and sentenced to death for the killing of Dean Meyers, the victim of a sniper’s bullet at a Manassas, Virginia gas station in 2002, Muhammad has already exhausted appellate avenues aside from the United States
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Innocent Man May Be Executed in Georgia – The Troy Davis Case
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Around twenty years ago, a cop was gunned down in Savannah and Troy Davis was caught and convicted for the crime. Nineteen years old at the time, he was sentenced to die, and he has watched all this time pass – 1989 to today – from a small, bleak Death Row cell over in Georgia.…
Orlando Sentinel’s Sarah Lundy wrote a great article this week
Posted in Death Penalty Resources
On Wednesday, an article by journalist Sarah Lundy appeared in the Orlando Sentinel entitled, “Only Florida’s Governors can say how they pick execution order.”
In it, Lundy explores the reality that Florida governors mysteriously choose to grant clemency only to a select few on Florida’s Death Row and no one knows how or why their…