David Wood Wants DNA Tests That May Delay Execution — Or Prove His Innocence
Two months ago, Marcia Fulton received a knock on her door in El Paso, Texas, from lawyers for David Wood ...
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Tag: Capital Punishment
Texas Will Soon Execute David Wood. Was His Conviction Based on Lies?
Additional reporting by Alvin Melathe On March 13, Texas plans to execute David Wood, who became known in the press ...
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Why a Doctor Defends Firing Squads But Doesn’t Advocate Executions
The Trump administration recently pledged to help executioners across the country secure lethal injection drugs. But many drug companies still ...
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Trump’s New Executive Order to Expand the Death Penalty Misses Key Details
Filed 6:05 p.m. EST 01.22.2025 The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration ...
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Robert Roberson Shows Perils of Death Penalty Cases Involving Autism
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this ...
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How Sparing the Parkland Shooter’s Life Changed Florida’s Death Penalty
In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on ...
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What to Know About How a Florida School Shooter’s Life Was Spared
Nikolas Cruz was the rare mass killer in America to have his fate decided at trial; many die during the ...
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Will the Supreme Court Rethink Death Penalty Defendants’ Rights?
On a March evening last year, death penalty lawyers, scholars and trained investigators gathered in an Atlanta hotel room to ...
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Sean Finnegan learns fate in gruesome death of Jennifer Paxton
A Tennessee man convicted of savagely raping, torturing and killing a woman with his girlfriend has been sentenced to death, ...
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A Death Row Prisoner’s Parting Interview
Additional reporting by Nakylah Carter and Keri Blakinger Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. ...
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