On Monday, July 14, a Lawrence County man’s conviction in the 2009 murder of a couple who was found shot to death in their home was upheld by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, according to a news article at WLOX 13 News. 66-year-old Charles Arthur Moore was convicted of…
In May of 2008, Randall Mays, who is now 54 years old, was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering two Henderson County deputies in Texas, according to the Athens Review. Mays reportedly fired shots that killed the deputies as they responded to a residential disturbance in Payne Springs…
Daniel Allen Hall, a 28-year-old Mt Morris man convicted of sexually assaulting his six-month-old daughter, recently had his life sentence overturned by an appeals court, according to news reports at Mlive.com. Now, Hall has been resentenced to between 25 and 50 years in prison by Genesee Circuit Judge Geoffrey Neithercut,…
Chip Moray Smith, a 43-year-old Golden Valley man who has been through three murder trials in connection the with the 2001 shooting death of Chris Darren Payton, has had his conviction upheld by an Arizona appellate court, according to a news article at the Mohave Valley Daily News. Smith allegedly…
In 2012, Shawn Tyson was convicted of the April 2011 murders of two British tourists in Newtown, FL. Tyson was sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Earlier this month, Tyson appealed his conviction, claiming that the sentence he was given in 2012 violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on…
In 1989, then 20-year-old Matthew Makowski was found guilty of stabbing Pietro “Pete” Puma of Dearborn to death. Makowski was convicted of first-degree felony murder, and sentenced to life in prison. At the time of the murder, Makowski managed a Dearborn health club. He alleged arranged for Puma, who was…
On Friday, May 30, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that a Kent County man’s rights were not violated when a judge informed a jury who could not come to a decision on the man’s guilt or innocence of the costs to retry him, according to Mlive.com. The defendant, 51-year-old…
In April of 2010, Andrea Zampatti was involved in a road rage incident that resulted in injury to several individuals. She was convicted in 2013 of 14 felony charges by Judge Edward Hedstrom in a St. Johns County circuit court, and sentenced by the judge to 33 years in prison.…
In May of 2011, Bart Wayne Johnson was found guilty of killing a Pelham, Alabama police officer in 2009. Johnson was convicted of shooting Philip Davis in the face after he was pulled over and issued a speeding ticket, according to The Birmingham News. At his sentencing hearing the next…
In 1990, Debra Milke was convicted of having her son murdered in 1989 in a desert outside of Phoenix. Milke allegedly had two men shoot her son, who was 4 years old at the time. After spending more than 20 years in prison on death row, Milke’s conviction was overturned…