Donnie Johnson suffocated his wife in 1984 in Memphis and has been on death row for more than three decades. He has asked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without parole because he is now a changed man.
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Woman dies after crash in North Memphis, police say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A 27-year-old woman died after a crash in North Memphis on Thursday. Memphis Police (MPD) said the crash happened just before 6:30 p.m. at the corner of Chelsea Avenue and Merton ...
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15-year-old facing charges after killing a man in South Memphis, police say
BREAKING: A 15-year-old boy is responsible for allegedly shooting a man to death on Thursday night, police said.
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Man found shot to death in truck in southwest Memphis
A man was found dead inside an SUV in southwest Memphis Thursday night, according to Memphis Police. A little after 9 p.m., officers responded to a shooting at King Road and ...
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Missouri man set to be executed in June. Five jurors now say he should be spared
Those factors and others have altered the views of some jurors, five of whom now oppose execution ... clemency on a death penalty case as governor. Two people were executed last year and two ...
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Leonard Taylor is set to be executed by Missouri in 9 days. Will an innocent man die?
A separate request sent by his attorneys Thursday ... to be executed in the U.S. She died Jan. 3. Both had asked Parson to halt their executions. He chose not to intervene. Though the death ...
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Japan carries out three executions in one day
Japanese judicial authorities Tuesday hanged three death row ... public supports executions, Furukawa said. He also defended the short notice given to inmates about to be executed, citing a ...
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Former MAHS standout, Tennessee DB Cameron Miller transfers to Memphis football
has transferred to Memphis football after spending his freshman season at Tennessee, his father Cedric Miller confirmed Tuesday to the Commercial Appeal. Cameron Miller has enrolled in classes at ...
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Distillery opens in former Tennessee prison where Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer escaped
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, was transformed into ... It seemed like Petros’ death knell. "Since the prison closed in ’09 there wasn’t nothing for us in Petros ...
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Alabama inmate set for execution asks to die by nitrogen, calls recent lethal injections ‘botched’
Lawyers for an inmate who is soon set to die in Alabama are arguing he should be executed ... failed execution attempts on other inmates last year. James Barber, 64, is currently on death row ...
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DeSantis delays execution of South Florida killer
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday temporarily put a hold on the execution of Duane Eugene Owen and ordered a psychiatric evaluation of the Death Row inmate after his lawyers argued that he may be insane.
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DeSantis delays execution of South Florida killer
Ron DeSantis on Monday temporarily put a hold on the execution ... of the Death Row inmate after his lawyers argued that he may be insane. Owen, 62, is slated to be executed by lethal injection ...
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Three More Executed in Iran Over Protests
The three executions added to the number ... He was the second protester known to be officially executed. He was accused of stabbing to death two members of the Basij militia and wounding four ...