Death Row Stories

The stories of Ronald Cotton and Richard Anthony Jones
 both incarcerated for crimes they did not commit.

The inmates on Death Row are not necessarily guilty especially if they were convicted mostly on an eye witness testimony.  We are not the Judge and Jury and there should be a law that DNA testing should be done if at all possible.  Eye witness testimony is not one hundred (100%) accurate. In a line up there should be only one person shown at a time and any detective working on the case should not be included in the lineup. This video explains and shows just how inaccurate an eyewitness can be.
Ronald Cotton

Time Served: 11 years

Ronald Cotton was exonerated in 1995, after spending over 11 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. His convictions were based largely on an eyewitness misidentification made by one of the victims, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino. Cotton and Thompson-Cannino are now good friends and leading advocates for eyewitness identification reform.

Ronald Cotton

Time Served: 11 years

Ronald Cotton was exonerated in 1995, after spending over 11 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. His convictions were based largely on an eyewitness misidentification made by one of the victims, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino. Cotton and Thompson-Cannino are now good friends and leading advocates for eyewitness identification reform.

Richard Anthony Jones
Time Served: 17 years
Mr. Jones was convicted of a Roeland Park robbery committed in 1999.  While serving time in prison, he began hearing from other prisoners that he bore a striking resemblance to another known criminal.  He finally received help from the Innocence Project who believed him enough to begin looking into the claim of a doppelganger who may have been the real culprit.

The legal team then contacted the victim from the robbery to look at photos of the two men side-by-side.  The victim agreed that she could not tell the two men apart and could now not be sure of her 17-year-old testimony.

Ultimately, Johnson County District Judge Kevin Moriarty ordered Jones’s release based on the new evidence.

Mr. Jones was said to be angry for years about his incarceration (and rightly so), but when he looked at the photo of his doppelganger, even he had to admit that it was an easy mistake to make.

Mr. Jones told the media he was happy to be with his children at long last. “When it comes to my kids, it’s been a rough ride, but they are now at an age where they can understand,” he said.


Free at Last -- Anthony Ray Hinton 

 
 

You may wonder why I do what I do,well here is the perfect example.
You do not know if someone has truly committed a crime or not just because they were found guilty.He had ineffective council and a police department that did not do due diligence in the case.It’s my job to help anybody no matter what.This is for the Prosecutors, Judges, Attorneys and the Juries as well.  It is scary when a case is presented with no evidence and a jury still finds a man guilty because of the fast talking attorney and the fact they want to go home or they do not like the color of his skin or his looks.  These are all facts.

This is a lesson we all should learn from that just because the Prosecutor says he did it does not mean he did it.  It is the Prosecutors’ job it to convict someone no matter what.

Now we have to figure out how to stop this from happening again.

I am now wondering how many people were put to death that were innocent just because of ineffective council and a jury that wanted to go home early or liked the way the prosecutor talked or acted so they believed him.

I Earl Wallace Woodlen, Jr. is against the death penalty.

 

Anthony Ray Hinton was on death row for thirty (30) years for a crime he did not commit.



I do not know if the guys on death row are guilty or not.  Here is a man that was in jail for twenty-five (25) years and was innocent and that’s why I do what I do.

I’m Earl Wallace Woodlen, Jr.

 

JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION’ BY BRYAN STEVENSON

ANTHONY RAY HINTON'S ATTORNEY

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

TV BROADCAST OF HIS SECOND TRIAL AND PROPOSED RELEASE DATE

Anthony Wright
25 years later, freed by DNA evidence:
'It's the greatest day of my life'

I do not know if the guys on death row are guilty or not.  Here is a man that was in jail for twenty-five (25) years and was innocent and that’s why I do what I do.

I’m Earl Wallace Woodlen, Jr.

Video at the seen of Anthony Wright's Release

Anthony leaving Jail
His Attorneys being Interviewed
Anthony being Interviewed
Walking away a Free Man at Last
Anthoney Wright Celebrating his New Freedom

VIDEO'S OF PRISONS THAT HAVE MANY INMATES ON DEATH ROW AND HOW THEY ARE BEING TREATED AMONG OTHER THINGS.

A BRONX TALE
SIX IMPRISONED FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS AND INNOCENT.  

Seven people were indited but six were convicted of the murder.  There were five men and a woman.  These six people were incarcerated for 100 years in this case because of the detectives’ misconduct.

Eric Glisson, Cathy Watkins, Carlos Perez, Devon Aires, Michael Cosme and Israel Vasquez.  Eric was twenty years old with a week old baby when arrested.
The witness Miriam Tavares lied, she could not see anything from the window she was looking through and the police did not check on her story they already had their minds made up.
Another person Cathy Gomez who was sixteen at the time was used by the detectives and who at the time could not read or write English told the detectives she did not see or know anything but they just placed papers in from of her to sign and told her she was not in any trouble.  She only testified because they told her she would be arrested if she did not.

Jose Rodriguez and Gilbert Vega of the Sex, Money, Murder Gang confessed they did the murder.

Attorney Peter A. Cross took the case for free and got results that freed first Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins.  The others were later freed as well.
John O'Malley a investigator for the US Attorney in New York looked into the case and did what he could to help.


Attorney Peter A. Cross & his assistant Charmaine Chester

http://www.evw.com/attorney/peter-a-cross/

Five Wrongfully Convicted Of Homicide Awarded $40 million

Five innocent people who each spent nearly 20 years in the slammer for a murder they didn’t commit are dropping their malicious-prosecution suits in exchange for $40 million, Peter Cross, a lawyer for one of the ex-inmates, said Thursday.
Eric Glisson, Cathy Watkins, Carlos Perez, Devon Ayers and Michael Cosme were found guilty in the 1995 shooting of livery driver Baithe Diop, who was killed in The Bronx amid a rash of 1990s cabby holdups.
While in jail, Glisson learned Diop was actually killed by the Sex Money Murder gang, and he sent a letter with that info to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/22/five-wrongfully-jailed-murderers-get-40m-payout/

Eric Glisson, right, with his lawyer Peter Cross

Seven people were indited but six were convicted of the murder.  There were five men and a woman.  These six people were incarcerated for 100 years in this case because of the detectives’ misconduct.

Eric Glisson, Cathy Watkins, Carlos Perez, Devon Aires, Michael Cosme and Israel Vasquez.  Eric was twenty years old with a week old baby when arrested.

The witness Miriam Tavares lied, she could not see anything from the window she was looking through and the police did not check on her story they already had their minds made up.

Another person Cathy Gomez who was sixteen at the time was used by the detectives and who at the time could not read or write English told the detectives she did not see or know anything but they just placed papers in from of her to sign and told her she was not in any trouble.  She only testified because they told her she would be arrested if she did not.

Jose Rodriguez and Gilbert Vega of the Sex, Money, Murder Gang confessed they did the murder.

Attorney Peter A. Cross took the case for free and got results that freed first Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins.  The others were later freed as well.

John O'Malley a investigator for the US Attorney in New York looked into the case and did what he could to help.

Attorney Peter A. Cross & his assistant Charmaine Chester
http://www.evw.com/attorney/peter-a-cross/

 
 
 

How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The Inside


The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre

"I taught continually - giving out pamphlets free to those who had no money. I let them sit and read for hours in the store. Some would come back every day and read the same book until they finished it. This was the opportunity I had dreamed about - to be able to help my people by increasing the political awareness of the youth." -Martin Sostre

Martin Sostre in 1976. While in prison, he transformed himself from “a street dude, a hustler,” as he described himself, to a pioneering fighter for prisoners’ rights.Credit...Vic DeLucia/New York Post Archives /NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images (see below)

How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The Inside

Frame Up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre, a film by Joel Sucher and and Steven Fischler, was released in 1974 by Pacific Street Films.
He served time in Attica prison during the early 1960s, where he embraced doctrines as diverse as Black Muslimism, Black nationalism, Internationalism, and finally anarchism. In 1966 Sostre opened the first[1] Afro-Asian Bookstore at 1412 Jefferson[2] in Buffalo, New York.[3] For its somewhat short existence, Sostre's bookstore was a center for radical thought and education in the Buffalo ghetto. As Sostre details:


Sostre was arrested at his bookstore on July 14, 1967, for "narcotics, riot, arson, and assault", charges later proven to be fabricated, part of a COINTELPRO program.[5] He was convicted and sentenced to serve forty-one years and thirty days. Sostre became a jailhouse lawyer, regularly acting as legal counsel to other inmates and winning two landmark legal cases involving prisoner rights: Sostre v. Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis. According to Sostre, these decisions constituted "a resounding defeat for the establishment who will now find it exceedingly difficult to torture with impunity the thousands of captive black (and white) political prisoners illegally held in their concentration camps."[6]

In earlier legal activity, Sostre secured religious rights for Black Muslim prisoners and also eliminated (in the words of Federal Judge Constance Motley) some of the more "outrageously inhuman aspects of solitary confinement in some of the state prisons."

In December 1973 Amnesty International put Sostre on its "prisoner of conscience" list, stating: "We became convinced that Martin Sostre has been the victim of an international miscarriage of justice because of his political beliefs ... not for his crimes ." [7] In addition to numerous defense committees in New York State, a Committee to Free Martin Sostre, made up of prominent citizens, joined in an effort to publicize Sostre's case and petition the New York Governor Hugh Carey for his release. On December 7, 1975, Russian Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov added his name to the clemency appeal. Governor Carey granted Sostre clemency on Christmas Eve of 1975;[7][8] Sostre was released from prison in February 1976.[8]

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin attributes his initial interest in anarchism to Sostre.

In 1974 Pacific Street Films debuted a documentary film on Sostre called Frame-up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre. It detailed Sostre's case with extensive interviews from prison.

In later life Sostre lived in Manhattan with his wife Lizabeth Sostre, his son Mark who died in his 20s and his other son Vincent.[9]

Sostre died on August 12, 2015.[10]

In November 2017, the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library hosted To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre, an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Black rebellion on Buffalo's eastside.[11] The event included an installation created by local eastside artist called Reviving Sostre.[12] The installation consisted of three bookshelves painted by the artists and placed in the lobby of the Merriweather Library, which was built on the same location one of Sostre's bookstore used to stand.[13]
 
Martin Sostre was jailed twice on drug charges and spent nearly 20 years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. In that time, he transformed himself from “a street dude, a hustler,” as he described himself, to a pioneering fighter for prisoners’ rights.

“For the first time, I had a chance to think, and began reading everything I could — history, philosophy, and law,” he once said, as quoted in a 2017 NPR report that detailed his life.

He taught himself the law, organized inmates and challenged harsh prison conditions, filing lawsuits from behind bars in the 1960s and ’70s — a decade before the prisoners’ rights movement began growing — that led to legal decisions ensuring greater protection for inmates.

He successfully sued for the right to practice Islam while incarcerated, which his jailers had denied him and other prisoners. And he protested some standard prison practices as dehumanizing, including censorship of inmates’ incoming mail, rectal examinations and the use of solitary confinement as punishment.

By the 1970s, Sostre’s activism while incarcerated on a drug-sale charge, which he maintained was a police setup, would make him an international symbol. He garnered the support of Jean-Paul Sartre, prominent civil-rights advocates and Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

“He was raising issues of solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment long before anyone was even granting that prisoners have a constitutional right to anything,” Garrett Felber, a historian at the University of Mississippi who is editing a collection of Sostre’s writing, said in a telephone interview.

Martin Ramirez Sostre was born in Harlem on March 20, 1923, to Crescencia and Saturnino Sostre. His mother was a seamstress and hatmaker, his father a merchant marine. During the Great Depression he was forced to drop out of school to help his family. He was drafted into the Army in 1942 but was dishonorably discharged in 1946 after being involved, by his account, in a fight between rival companies.

Returning to Harlem with no job skills, he turned to the streets. His first arrest was in 1952 for possession of heroin. He then fled to California but was captured and ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison that October. After a short stint at Sing Sing, he was transferred to the Attica Correctional Facility and later to Clinton State Prison. There he began transforming his life.


Sostre took up yoga for its mental and physical discipline and became involved in the Nation of Islam after borrowing a copy of the Quran from a fellow inmate. He wanted others to join him in an Islamic study group, but corrections officials accused him of trying to recruit for “an anti-white movement” and dismissed his motives as not religiously sincere. He was placed in solitary confinement.

A rally in support of the Connecticut Black Panthers in 1970. Sostre’s activism would make him an international symbol for prisoners’ rights.
A rally in support of the Connecticut Black Panthers in 1970. Sostre’s activism would make him an international symbol for prisoners’ rights.Credit...David Fenton/Getty 

He taught himself constitutional law with books from the prison library, and he and several other inmates sued the warden at Clinton, J.E. LaVallee, for the right to practice their religion. The suit was successful: Sostre and the others were allowed to buy the Quran and hold Nation of Islam meetings. Their case preceded the landmark Cooper v. Pate Supreme Court decision, which also revolved around the right of an inmate to access Black Muslim publications and which established that people retain constitutional rights even in jail and that they are entitled to address their grievances in court.

In an interview for “Frame Up!,” a 1974 documentary about his incarceration, Sostre drew a contrast between a political prisoner and a politicized prisoner. A politicized prisoner, he explained, is “one who has become politically aware while in prison, even though the original crime that he committed was not a political crime.”

Sostre was released in October 1964 after 12 years in prison, four of them in solitary. He broke with the Nation of Islam that year, moved to Buffalo and took a job with Bethlehem Steel. The regular paycheck enabled him to save enough money to open the Afro-Asian Book Shop in the Cold Springs neighborhood. He stocked it with Communist, anarchist and black nationalist texts.

Once Sostre added jazz records to the mix, the bookstore became a popular hangout for the city’s young leftist population — both nascent black radicals and curious white college students.

Jerry Ross, a white student who drifted in from what was then the State University of New York at Buffalo, was impressed to see Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book,” anti-Vietnam War texts and materials on black history — “books,” he said, “you could not get in the university bookstore.”

Sostre, he said, was a willing mentor to anyone with sympathetic politics. “He treated me like he was colorblind,” Ross said. “He just completely accepted radical students into his fold.”

But the bookstore wouldn’t last. As in dozens of cities across America, racial tensions in Buffalo boiled over during the “long, hot summer” of 1967. By the end of June, many young black residents of Cold Springs, fed up with what they saw as structural inequality, police brutality and a lack of economic opportunity, took to looting and rioting.

Businesses had all but shut down, but the Afro-Asian Book Shop remained open, popular with the young and an object of scrutiny for the police. In “Frame Up!,” Sostre described feeling targeted after receiving frequent visits from the police and F.B.I. agents.

In the rioting a neighboring tavern caught fire, and water from firefighters’ hoses “wiped out” most of Sostre’s book inventory, Ross said.


The trial that followed in 1968 focused on a supposed drug deal. The state’s main witness was Arto Williams, who was awaiting his own trial on a theft charge. He testified that he had bought $15 worth of heroin from Sostre at the bookstore, but Sostre insisted that he had been set up by the police.

It took just a few hours for the all-white jury to convict him of selling heroin, and the judge, Frederick Marshall, sentenced him to up to 41 years in prison.

At the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, Sostre was once again put in solitary confinement — and once again he stood up for his rights. He refused to cut his beard and would not submit to rectal examinations, he  was also punished when he tried to mail a document to his lawyer.

“He described his protest against rectal examinations as fighting to keep the last vestige of his humanity,” Felber, the historian, said in an email.

In 1969, Sostre sued Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller; Paul D. McGinniss, the state corrections commissioner; and several prison officials for $1.2 million, saying that his time in solitary had violated his constitutional rights.

Sostre maintained his innocence while in jail in the 1960s and ’70s. He became something of a cause célèbre, with Amnesty International calling him “the victim of an international miscarriage of justice.”
Sostre maintained his innocence while in jail in the 1960s and ’70s. He became something of a cause célèbre, with Amnesty International calling him “the victim of an international miscarriage of justice.”Credit...Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
Later that year, Judge Constance Baker Motley of United States District Court (the first African-American woman appointed to the federal bench) ordered his immediate release from solitary confinement and awarded him $13,020 the following year — $35 for each of the 372 days he spent isolated.

Throughout, Sostre maintained his innocence on the original charges. And in 1973, Arto Williams recanted his testimony, saying he had lied so that he could have his own theft charge dropped.

Sostre became something of a cause célèbre, drawing the attention and support of left-leaning figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Amnesty International called Sostre “the victim of an international miscarriage of justice.”

The New York Times wrote that “because of his imprisonment and subsequent activities, prisons in America and particularly in New York can never again be quite the dark pits of repression and despair they once were.”

In 1975, the Soviet scientist Sakharov — winner of the Nobel Peace Prize that year — petitioned Gov. Hugh L. Carey of New York to order Sostre’s release. Carey granted him clemency that Christmas.

Sostre became an aide to Assemblywoman Marie M. Runyon, a Democrat. He married ELizabeth Roberts and had two sons, Mark and Vinny. He also continued his activism, focusing on tenants’ rights. trying to evict. Sostre shot him and then fled New York.

He returned two years later and was arrested after he was spotted in the library of New York Law School in Manhattan. He was acquitted in 1987 after arguing that he had acted in self-defense.

By the time Sostre died, on Aug. 12, 2015, at 92, he had largely been keeping to himself. His family, following his wishes, did not announce his death publicly.

Vinny said his father would have wanted “to be remembered the same way he lived, which is to inspire people to fight against injustice.”

Who Are The Angola Three (3) 

The Angola Three are three African-American former prison inmates (Robert King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades in solitary confinement while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison). The latter two were indicted in April 1972 for the killing of a prison corrections officer; they were convicted in January 1974.[1] Wallace and Woodfox served more than 40 years each in solitary, the "longest period of solitary confinement in American prison history."[
Robert King was convicted of a separate prison murder in 1973 and spent 29 years in solitary confinement before his conviction was overturned on appeal; he was released in 2001 after taking a plea deal.[3] From the late 1990s, each case was assessed, and activists began to work to have the cases appealed and convictions overturned because of doubts raised about the original trials.

In July 2013, Amnesty International called for the release of 71-year-old Herman Wallace, who had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.[4] He was released October 1, 2013. The state re-indicted him on October 3, 2013,[5] but he died on October 4, 2013, before he could be re-arrested.[6]

On November 20, 2014, Woodfox's conviction was overturned by the US Court of Appeals. In April 2015, his lawyer applied for an unconditional writ for his release.[7][8] His unconditional release was decided on June 10, 2015. He was released on February 19, 2016, after the prosecution agreed to drop its push for a retrial and accept his plea of no contest to lesser charges of burglary and manslaughter. He said he would have liked the chance to prove his innocence, but chose the plea deal because of advanced age and health issues.[9] -Wikipedia

WRONGFUL CONVICTION JIMMY DENNIS 

 
 
 
 

Chang Gang

On September 16, 1996 Alabama was the first site of a Female Chang Gang  

The Jeannie Nicarico Story
The three Innocent men (Rolando Cruz, Alejandro Hernandez and Stephen Buckley) convicted although they were Innocent.
Brian Dugan the Guilty Man took forever to be tried.

 Taken from the Chicago Tribune by Eric Zorn

On Friday, Feb. 25, 1983, 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico was abducted from her home in unincorporated Naperville home, brutally raped and slain. Investigators narrowed in on a trio of Aurora mopes: Alex Hernandez, Stephen Buckley and Rolando Cruz.  Cruz and Hernandez had been telling demonstrably false tales about the murder for various reasons, but these led to a grand jury indictment of the three men on March 8, 1984. The case was built on unreliable statements by would-be informants and contained no physical evidence against the defendants. 
When it became clear the men would go to trial, Du Page County Sheriff's Detective John Sam, who helped lead the investigation in the early months, resigned from the department in disgust.  Sam has said his disgust was heightened when the key evidence in the trial turned out to be a statement prosecutors said Cruz made to detectives on May 9, 1983. 
On Jan 19,  1988, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Cruz and Hernandez on grounds the men should have been tried separately.   Du Page prosecutors declined to offer Dugan immunity from the death penalty in the Nicarico murder, so he refused to testify at the second trials of Cruz and Hernandez in early 1990.
 The prosecutors successfully argued to keep information about his accurate confessions to the other crimes from the jury and Cruz was again convicted and sentenced to death.  Hernandez' second trial ended in a hung jury, but he was convicted on May 17, 1991 and sentenced to 80 years. 
"Someday, sooner or later, the public will realize what has happened in Nicarico," then Kane County State's Atty. Gary Johnson wrote in a 1991 letter to a Du Page County judge. Johnson, who had served as Stephen Buckley's attorney in the 1985 trial, wrote that this realization "will do to prosecutors what the Rodney King police beating tapes have done to the police."
In early 1992, Mary Brigid Kenney, the assistant attorney general assigned to fight his appeal, resigned in protest  and urged Atty. Gen Roland Burris in a letter to stop "this ugly prosecution." "It's not for me to place my judgment over a jury, regardless of what I think," Burris told reporters   after the resignation.  "A jury has found this individual guilty and given him the death penalty.  It is my role to see to it that it is upheld. That's my job." A 4-3 majority of the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the Cruz conviction later in 1992 with the astonishing assertion, "The State's case consisted of physical evidence linking defendant with the crime."  Cruz, since he was on Death Row, became a cause celebre. And on July, 14, 1994, the state's high court reversed its earlier ruling and ordered a third trial for him; the Illinois Appellate Court overturned Hernadez' conviction on Jan 30, 1995.

Two of Sam's former colleagues said Cruz had related to them a vision containing details of the crime. These details were reasonably accurate and therefore incriminating. But the detectives never took notes or wrote up this supposed statement and never told their partners or the grand jury about it.  Indeed this  blockbuster "vision," which Cruz denies recounting, came out of nowhere just before the trial.  Cruz and Hernandez were convicted  on Feb. 22, 1985 and sentenced to death. The jury deadlocked on Buckley, and the case against him ultimately was dropped on March 5, 1987.

That same year, Aurora resident Brian Dugan was arrested for the brutal rape and murder of  7-year-old Melissa Ackerman of Somonauk. He confessed to that sex crime and a series of others, and he offered a detailed admission --though not a formal confession -- to the Nicarico murder.

Veteran State Police Lt. Ed Cisowski conducted an in-depth investigation of the Dugan statements starting in November, 1985, and came away 100 percent sure, he said, that Dugan and Dugan alone raped and murdered Jeanine.  Nevertheless, DuPage County prosecutors remained skeptical  and did not  accept Dugan's offer to plead guilty in exchange for another life  sentence. 

Since a new round of DNA testing had shown Brian Dugan was likely the person who raped Jeanine, the state's new theory of the case was that Cruz, Hernandez and Dugan together committed the crime.

At his third trial in October/November, 1995, Cruz was abruptly acquitted and freed halfway through the trial when one of the officers involved in the so-called vision statement said that he'd discovered documentary evidence suggesting the story could not have happened the way authorities said it happened.  Charges were dropped against Alex Hernandez on Dec. 8, 1995.

In the spring of 1999, seven member of the DuPage County law enforcement community were tried in criminal court on charges that they conspired to frame Rolando Cruz for Jeanine's murder. They, too were acquitted.  Cruz, Hernandez and Buckley reached a $3.5 million civil settlement with DuPage County on September 26, 2000.  As Cruz was going before the state prisoner review board for a full pardon, on Nov. 15, 2002 , DuPage County state's attorney Joseph Birkett announced that the latest and most sophisticated round of DNA testing showed that Brian Dugan's DNA matched DNA evidence at the crime scene to a scientific certainty.  Today, November 29, 2005, Birkett announced a 15-count murder indictment against Brian Dugan, but would not rule out any other previous suspects from the case. 

Here is a man who shot another man eight (8) times that's murder but he got a hung jury.  These guys on Death Row how do i now what evidence the Police had on them and they are on death, death, death, row.  I a looking at the murder of this man and something does not make sense.
https://www.splcenter.org/
I can't understand how when a Police Officer, Michael T. Slager shoots a man eight (8) times shown in the video and in the back no less and then the video shows him 
throw something down by the man as to lead you to believe he had some kind of weapon.  We can not get a guilty verdict from the jurors... something ain't right with this picture.
With all this evidence showing what really happened how can the jury, jury, jury, not find the police officer guilty of murder when the evidence shows in fact he was 
guilty, even the commentators reporting on this situation said it was murder in their opinion.
Below is the video of Police Officer, Michael T. Slager shooting Walter Scott.
Here is a picture of Officer Slager shooting Mr. Scott, he has got about two (2) or three (3) shots in him at this point.
There were eleven (11) whites and one (1) black individual on the jury.  The one on the end is the one who hung it up and did not get justice for Walter Scott.
I do not understand this picture at all, it does not look good, I do not know what when down here.


Derrick J. Powell

DOB: 02/06/1987
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 05/20/2011
Date of Offense: 09/01/2009

Luis G. Cabrera


DOB: 11/07/1969
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)
Sentenced to Death: 03/14/2002
Date of Offense: 01/21/1996

James E. Cooke, Jr.


DOB: 12/02/1970
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 09/17/2012
Date of Offense: 05/01/2005

Michael R. Manley

DOB: 07/29/1974
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 02/03/2006
Date of Offense: 11/13/1995

Isaiah McCoy

DOB: 07/28/1987
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)
Sentenced to Death: 10/11/2012
Date of Offense: 05/04/2010 

 Adam W. Norcross

DOB: 07/25/1970
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 10/03/2001
Date of Offense: 11/04/1996

Juan J. Ortiz

DOB: 02/26/1972
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 09/26/2003
Date of Offense: 07/06/2001 
Gary W. Ploof

DOB: 03/19/1964
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 08/22/2003
Date of Offense: 11/03/2001 
Luis E. Reyes

DOB: 02/08/1977
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)
Sentenced to Death: 03/14/2002 
Date of Offense: 01/21/1996 
Chauncy S. Starling

DOB: 12/30/1974
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)
Sentenced to Death: 06/10/2004
Date of Offense: 03/09/2001 

Ralph E. Swan


DOB: 03/25/1971
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 10/03/2001
Date of Offense: 11/04/1996

David D. Stevenson

DOB: 06/06/1974
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 02/03/2006
Date of Offense: 11/13/1995 
Milton E. Taylor

DOB: 11/15/1968
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 07/06/2001

Date of Offense: 03/23/2000 

Jermaine Marlow Wright

DOB: 10/11/1972
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)
Sentenced to Death: 10/22/1992
Date of Offense: 01/14/1991 
Craig A. Zebroski

DOB: 09/06/1977
Race: White Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 08/18/1997
Date of Offense: 04/26/1996 
Emmett Taylor III

DOB: 08/19/1962
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 03/12/2010
Date of Offense: 08/13/2007 
Ambrose L. Sykes

DOB: 09/28/1972
Race: Black Gender: Male
Offense: Murder 1st
Sentenced to Death: 09/20/2006
Date of Offense: 11/07/2004 

 Below are the links for death row in-mates from across the country. 


Arizona:  https://corrections.az.gov/node/431

Arkansas:  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/arkansas      

California:   http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/docs/CondemnedInmateListSecure.pdf

Colorado: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?56-Colorado-Male-Death-Row-Inmates

Connecticut:  http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-deathrow-pg,0,871806.photogallery     

Delaware:  http://doc.delaware.gov/deathrow/inmates.shtml

Florida:  http://www.dc.state.fl.us/activeinmates/deathrowroster.asp

Georgia: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-row-prisoners

Hawaii:  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/hawaii

Idaho: http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/death_row 

Illinois: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-illinois-deathpenalty-idUSTRE76110Z20110702

Indiana: http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/rownew.htm

Iowa:  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-row-prisoners  

Kansas:  http://www.off2dr.com/smf/index.php?topic=6311.0

Kentucky: http://crime.about.com/od/deathrow/ig/Kentucky-Death-Row-Inmates/

Louisiana (males): http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?66-Louisiana-Male-Death-Row-Inmates       

Louisiana (females): http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?44-Louisiana-Female-Death-Row-Inmates

Maine:    http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/hawaii

Maryland: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/maryland-1

Massachusetts: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/massachusetts-0

Michigan:  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/michigan-0

Minnesota: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/minnesota-0

Mississippi: http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/death_row_inmates.htm       

Missouri: http://missourideathrow.com/current-inmates/

Montana: http://mtabolitionco.org/issues/death-row-montana/

Nebraska: http://www.corrections.nebraska.gov/pdf/Death%20Row.pdf

Nevada: http://vegasmurderwatch.com/nvdr.html

New Hampshire: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-hampshire-1

New Jersey: http://www.corrections.com/news/article/24014-nj-closing-death-row

New Mexico: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-mexico-1

New York: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-york-1        

North Carolina: https://www.ncdps.gov/Index2.cfm?a=000003,002240,002327,002328

North Dakota:  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/north-dakota-0

Ohio: http://www.drc.ohio.gov/death-row

Oklahoma: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?77-Oklahoma-Male-Death-Row-Inmates

Oregon: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/page/oregon_death_row.html

Pennsylvania: http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/pennsylvania-1

Rhode Island: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/rhode-island

South Carolina: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?80-South-Carolina-Male-Death-Row

South Dakota: http://www.off2dr.com/smf/index.php?topic=6349.0

Tennessee: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/tennessee-1

Texas: https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/

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