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Jun 10, 2021 · Texas. 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 ...
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 18, 2022 · In this interview, conducted in 15-minute phone calls, and edited and condensed for length and clarity, Stankewitz describes his life in prison – as an Indigenous man and as a Death Row prisoner for more than four decades.
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...
Dec 19, 2001 · DAVID KRAVETS. SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) – Robert Lee Massie welcomed death, pumping his fist to expose a vein for his long-awaited execution. After 13 minutes, the lethal injection ended his...
Jun 9, 2021 · June 9, 2021 / 5:00 PM CDT / CBS Texas. HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - The longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, June 9 after prosecutors in...
Jun 9, 2021 · Riles, the longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 after prosecutors in Texas concluded the 71-year-old man is ineligible for execution and incompetent for retrial due to his long history of mental illness. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)
