Tag: Death Row

Possible Death Penalty For Alabama Grandmother Charged With Torturing 9 Year Old Granddaughter To Death

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Joyce Hardin Garrard was found guilty of Capital Murder in the death of 9-year-old granddaughter, Savannah Hardin.

Jurors who convicted an Alabama woman in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter soon must decide whether to recommend she should die for the crime or spend the rest of her life in prison.

A jury convicted 49-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard late Friday in the February 2012 death of Savannah Hardin, siding with prosecutors who depicted Garrard as a “drill sergeant from hell,” a domineering taskmaster so enraged over a lie about candy that she made the girl run until she dropped. Continue reading “Possible Death Penalty For Alabama Grandmother Charged With Torturing 9 Year Old Granddaughter To Death”

Georgia’s Only Woman On Death Row Sues Over ‘Mortal Fear’ During Delayed Execution

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Kelly Gissendaner, Georgia’s only woman on death row

The case of Kelly Gissendaner, Georgia’s only woman on death row, has more twists and turns than a rural Georgia back road.

Gissendaner was initially set to be executed in late February but her execution was delayed “due to inclement weather”.

Kelly’s execution was rescheduled until March 2, 2015 and was yet again DELAYED due to the injection drug’s cloudy appearance.

This time Kelly Gissendaner’s camp is crying foul on the DOC (Department of Corrections) and has filed a lawsuit on Gissendaner’s behalf stating that she endured 13 hours of “immense mental anxiety” and “mortal fear” — and that the delay was heinous enough to make a future execution unnecessarily cruel and therefore unconstitutional. Continue reading “Georgia’s Only Woman On Death Row Sues Over ‘Mortal Fear’ During Delayed Execution”

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”