South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence | South Carolina
South Carolina executed a death row inmate on Friday, just days after a key prosecution witness argued that the defendant lied at trial and that the state was executing an innocent man. Khalil Devine Black Sun Allah, 46, was killed by lethal injection at approximately 7 p.m. His lawyers filed an emergency motion for a […]
Alabama executes man convicted of murdering delivery driver in 1998 robbery
Keith Edmund Gavin, who was sentenced to death for the 1998 shooting death of courier driver William Clayton Jr., will be executed by chemical injection on July 18, 2024. At the time of Clayton’s murder, Gavin was on parole in Illinois after serving 17 years of a 34-year sentence for an unrelated murder conviction, according […]