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The jury couldn't figure it out either. At Collins' first trial, for first- degree murder, her friends, a minister, her doctors and several experts testified about her character and the violence she had suffered. The prosecution played tapes of her threatening her husband over the phone and portrayed her...
Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri has commuted the life sentences of two women, Helen Martin and Becca Hughes, both convicted of murdering abusive husbands. Ashcroft said he commuted the sentences because the women were convicted before a 1987 law allowing the "battered-spouse syndrome" as a defense. They are...
Conditions were not always so relaxed and congenial at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Just three years ago, the main prison and five outcamps at the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison farm -- physically the largest lockup in the country -- were rocking with murders, suicides and escape attempts. The...
Whitley also proved an ally on the issue of greatest concern to lifers: parole eligibility. Inmates are lobbying Baton Rouge for laws that would grant lifers the opportunity for a supervised release, a practice common in most states. "Others saw us as subversive," says Norris Henderson, who heads the inmate...
"What you have done is thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding...