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*If someone killed a family member of yours in front of their child would you think death row is the appropriate sentence for them? Now what if you found out they were being sent to death row because the murderer was black? The verdict might seem like a scenario of six in one hand and [...]
*There have been a few people convicted of crimes that have garnered nationwide support to either release them from jail or have them removed from death row… not this time. In 1997, Kimberly McCarthy, 51, was accused of killing her neighbor Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired college psychology professor in Lancaster, Texas, approximately 15 miles [...]
*Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday that they had dropped their attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago and whose subsequent legal case based on claims of innocence had received international attention. Abu-Jamal will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility [...]
*The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear a petition by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office seeking to reinstate the death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The ruling in the case of Abu-Jamal – convicted of murder in the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner – was one of [...]
*Politico.com is reporting that a White House official and a reporter who was in the room today denied a report from an African-American radio host who says Obama told a group of black journalists that he tried to save Troy Davis. As previously reported, the post from Rob Redding Jr. at The Redding News Review [...]
*WIDEawake Death Row Records and singer, songwriter Jewell comes full circle. The artist, born Jewell Caples, was signed to Death Row in the 1990s. Known as the “The First Lady of Death Row Records,” Jewell held her own with the men of Death Row, bringing raw talent to successful Death Row albums “The Chronic,” “Dogg [...]
*Detroit – Best Hand Entertainment, LLC is being touted as the new Motown Records. The company which boasts three divisions: Best Hand Entertainment, Best Hand Music and Best Hand Publishing Company has joined forces with Jewell Caples, former Death Row Records First Lady who is the company’s Vice President and is signed to Best Hand [...]
*One day before he was headed to trial, Dr. Dre settled his lawsuit over damages from unauthorized online sales of his album “The Chronic.” Attorneys for the rapper/producer, whose real name is Andre Young, filed a notice of settlement in a Los Angeles federal court late Monday afternoon, reports the Associated Press. He had been [...]
*Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said he kept a campaign promise Tuesday. He made a telephone call to Maureen Faulkner and asked her what to do about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Leave him to spend life in prison, he asked, or keep seeking the death penalty for the murder of her husband, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, in [...]
*A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the new incarnation of Death Row Records does not have the rights to sell Dr. Dre’s iconic rap album “The Chronic” via digital download, reports the AP. The rapper, whose real name is Andre Young, sued WIDEawke Death Row Records last year, claiming it was improperly selling “The Chronic” [...]
*TMZ has posted footage of former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight getting caught up in a physical altercation at a Las Vegas casino over the weekend after a man allegedly challenged him to a fight. The Death Row Records founder was at the Aria Hotel and Casino in Sin City in the early hours of [...]
*Good grief, it’s come to this. Marion “Suge” Knight, the former Death Row Records boss man, who previously filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and has been faced with legal troubles over the past few years, saw his possessions auctioned off on the A&E show “Storage Wars,” where participants in a niche industry buy storage lockers [...]
*A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia, acting on orders from the Supreme Court, will again review the death sentence of death-row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal in a hearing scheduled for Nov. 9, reports the AP. Abu-Jamal, 56, has been on death row since his 1982 conviction for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner the year [...]
*In Savannah, Georgia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that a death row inmate whose case attracted international support failed to prove his innocence after the U.S. Supreme Court gave him a rare chance to clear his name. Troy Anthony Davis has spent nearly 20 years on Georgia’s death row for the 1989 slaying of an [...]
*Notorious former Chicago Police Lieutenant Jon Burge now faces up to 45 years in prison after being found guilty of lying to a grand jury and obstruction of justice in a case growing out of his practice of torturing confessions out of Black criminal suspects. Prior to the convictions, Burge’s victims had won millions of [...]
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