Tag: inmate
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Texas attorney general and state lawmakers spar over death row inmate in ‘shaken baby’ case
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who used their legislative powers and the courts to stop an execution last week with only hours to spare have drawn public rebuke from state Attorney General Ken Paxton, stirring claims against his office on Thursday of “misrepresentation” in the death row inmate’s case. Robert Roberson, 57, was set to…
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Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s testimony postponed at House committee hearing
A highly anticipated legislative hearing began Monday but without its key witness: a Texas inmate whose execution for his daughter’s “shaken baby” death was narrowly averted last week. Robert Roberson was expected to appear before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence in Austin after members issued a subpoena on Wednesday for him to testify…
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A death row inmate wrestled with guilt and addiction before his execution
ATMORE, Ala. — When Derrick Dearman entered Alabama’s execution chamber Thursday evening, he was the fifth man the state put to death this year. The difference between Dearman and the men who came before him is that he went to his death willingly. In April, Dearman, 36, dropped his appeals and wrote a letter to…
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Supreme Court hears Oklahoma death penalty case in which state and inmate agree conviction should be tossed
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh whether inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant. Glossip, who is now 61, was convicted of arranging for the murder in 1997 of his boss at…
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Texas inmate Robert Roberson could be first U.S. execution for case of ‘shaken baby’ death
A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country’s first execution for “shaken baby syndrome,” a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, Robert…
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World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan
TOYKO — A Japanese man said to have spent the world’s longest time on death row was cleared in a retrial of the 1966 murders of four people on Thursday, ending his family’s search for justice for a wrongful conviction. Iwao Hakamata, 88, spent 45 years awaiting execution before a court ordered his release and…
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Alabama prepares to put inmate to death in second U.S. nitrogen gas execution
Two years after an Alabama prisoner was spared when staff members struggled to execute him by lethal injection, officials plan to try again Thursday — using the rare method of nitrogen gas. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, would be the second person in the country executed via nitrogen hypoxia, in which a person breathes only nitrogen…