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Death rows across the country are filled with people suffering from severe forms of mental illness. Taking action in an area where the U.S. Supreme Court has not ventured, some states are now enacting or considering laws that would exclude those prisoners from capital punishment.
Arizona's victim compensation program helps pay costs related to a crime victim's recovery, but it is woefully underfunded.
A judge tossed out a 1994 conviction on murder and sexual assault charges against Barry Lee Jones.
A judge tossed out a 1994 conviction on murder and sexual assault charges against Barry Lee Jones.
A man who’s been on death row since the 1990s should soon be free after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder in Pima County Superior Court on Thursday.The murder conviction of Barry Jones was thrown out in 2018 by a federal judge but then the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it last year.Jones was convicted of killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter.