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Jun 10, 2021 · Raymond Riles (pictured), the nation’s longest serving death-row prisoner, has been resentenced to life.. On June 9, 2021, Harris County, Texas District Judge Ana Martinez imposed the life sentence via a Zoom teleconference after county prosecutors determined that Riles was incompetent to participate in a capital resentencing trial and, if again sentenced to death, would never be mentally ...
Jun 9, 2021 · Raymond Riles has spent more than 45 years on death row for fatally shooting John Thomas Henry in 1974 at a Houston car lot following a disagreement over a vehicle. He is the country's longest ...
On February 3, 2016, Georgia’s oldest Death Row inmate, 72-year-old Brandon Astor Jones, was executed by lethal injection. He spent over 36 years on Death Row after being sentenced to death for murdering Roger Tackett during the robbery of a convenience store in 1979. Jones was the second man to die for the crime; his co-criminal, Van ...
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Apr 16, 2021 · Texas Department of Criminal Justice/AP. CNN —. A court in Texas has thrown out the death sentence of convicted killer Raymond Riles, who has spent more than 40 years on the state’s death row ...
Mar 18, 2022 · Douglas Ray Stankewitz is California’s longest-serving death-row prisoner. The 63-year-old Monache and Cherokee Indian from the Big Sandy Rancheria has spent 43 years in San Quentin State Prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit: the Feb. 8, 1978 carjacking and murder of 21-year-old Theresa Graybeal in Fresno, California.
Mar 13, 2023 · The Tokyo High Court said Iwao Hakamada, who is the world's longest-serving death row inmate, deserves a retrial because of a possibility that key evidence that led to his conviction could have ...
Jun 10, 2021 · The longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was re-sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after prosecutors in Texas concluded the 71-year-old man is ineligible for execution and ...