Category: True Crime

Man Awarded 9.1 Million for Wrongful Conviction

Here’s a gut wrenching story.

This man was wrongfully convicted of a terrible heinous crime and made to stay in prison for 22 years where he suffered mental, physical and sexual abuse.

The judgment of $9.1 million seems like a good attempt by the courts to right their wrong, but how can this man be re-paid for years and years of being confined and ultimately violated for a crime he didn’t even commit?

Hopefully he can still salvage what’s left of his life and find healing in all of this.

What a sad miscarriage of justice!

No Death Row: Jurors in Jodi Arias Case 11-1 for Death Penalty

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Jodi Arias looks toward the jury entering the courtroom during the sentencing phase retrial in Phoenix

It took just one juror to spare the life of convicted murderer Jodi Arias  — and the woman had to survive an attempt by her colleagues to boot her from the jury before she could do it.

In the end, the jury voted 11-1 in favor of death — not enough to send Arias to death row in the case that became a global sensation with its tawdry revelations about her sexual relationship with the victim and that she had slit his throat so deeply that he was nearly decapitated. Continue reading “No Death Row: Jurors in Jodi Arias Case 11-1 for Death Penalty”

It’s “Life Row” For Two of the Youngest Women on Death Row

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Tiffany Cole (L) Emilia Carr (R)

When Tiffany Cole and Emilia Carr walk down the hall in Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution for Women together, they seem more like smiling girlfriends than convicted felons sitting on death row.

Cole is now 33, and Carr is now 30. Carr is the youngest woman in the United States sitting on death row, and Cole is the third youngest. The two women are behind bars for committing two separate crimes, and they had separate lives until they arrived as neighbors on the famous death row corridor at the women’s correctional facility in Ocala, Florida.

Carr, who is from Ocala, and Cole, from Jacksonville, Florida, share a similar path. Continue reading “It’s “Life Row” For Two of the Youngest Women on Death Row”