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Woman who escaped death row dies in house fire 30 years later
Sunny Jacobs, 76, was falsely convicted in Florida for the murder of two police officers in 1976 and spent 17 years on death ...
Woman who died in Connemara house fire named as former US death row inmate Sunny Jacobs
Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, who was aged in her 70s, spent almost 17 years in a Florida prison over the murder of two police ...
Los Angeles Times4mon
It’s now clear that America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...
USA Today12mon
A last supper on death row: Should America give murderers an extravagant final meal?
Hours before convicted murderer Jamie Mills became the latest man to be executed in America ... 2020 had been on death row for an average of about 19 years. "The men and women who are in prison ...
The Independent2mon
A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walk free from prison
After 27 years on death row at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Holberg, now aged 52, learned she was no longer condemned. As their primary witness at the 1998 trial, prosecutors ...
Hattiesburg American24d
Only woman on Mississippi's death row is denied post-conviction relief again. The latest
The only woman on Mississippi's death row was denied a successor petition for post-conviction relief by the full Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday. All but one said Lisa Jo Chamberlin's quest ...
Tennessean16d
There is only one woman on death row in Tennessee. Here's what to know about Christa Pike
Pike is the only woman on death row in Tennessee. One of the other people convicted alongside Pike goes up for parole soon. Christa Pike, the only woman in Tennessee sentenced to death ...
The Shreveport Times3mon
Only woman on Death Row in Louisiana may receive execution date soon. Who is Antionette Frank?
Currently, there are 57 inmates on death row in Louisiana, and the most recent execution in the state was in 2010. Now, the only woman on Louisiana's death row, Antionette Frank, could soon ...
Irish Echo3d
American Woman Dies in Connemara House Fire
The woman who died in a house fire in Connemara on Tuesday morning has been named locally as Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs, who spent ...
Newsweek10mon
Final Hours Alive Tick Away For Two Death Row Inmates Set To Be Executed
The final hours tick away for two inmates on death row in Texas and Utah who are set ... He confronted the woman while she was jogging through her neighborhood. He was accused of strangling ...
Florida Today5mon
Titusville woman convicted of beating, strangling former housekeeper, dies on death row
Margaret Allen, the Titusville woman sentenced to Florida’s death row after a jury convicted her of torturing a former housekeeper, pouring household cleaner down her throat before duct-taping ...
Irish Star on MSN5h
Florida woman who escaped death row dies in Galway fire 30 years later
Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs was wrongfully incarcerated for 17 years, the first woman in Florida to face the death penalty, and 30 ...