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PA: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Decision Granting Terry Williams a New Capital Sentencing Phase

PA: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Decision Granting Terry Williams a New Capital Sentencing Phase

by Bert | Aug 24, 2017 | Pennsylvania

Three decades. That’s how long Terry Williams has been under a sentence of death for killing Amos Norwood. As we covered here almost five years ago, a state court judge in 2012 ruled that Mr. Williams deserved a new penalty phase because the prosecutors withheld...
PA: Innocence Project Urges Prosecutors to Review Cases Following Spate of Overturned Convictions

PA: Innocence Project Urges Prosecutors to Review Cases Following Spate of Overturned Convictions

by OpenFile | Oct 16, 2013 | Pennsylvania, The Open File Blog

The Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project has urged the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to conduct an internal review of cases from the 1980’s and 90’s following a spate of overturned murder convictions in the past year. But Seth...

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