Maurice Chammah
Staff Writer and Journalist at The Marshall Project
Journalist at @MarshallProj. Books: Arab/Jew (working on it!) + Let the Lord Sort Them (2021). Podcast: Just Say You’re Sorry https://t.co/rQ1URUwu8D
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Maurice Chammah
Two months ago, Marcia Fulton received a knock on her door in El Paso, Texas, from lawyers for David Wood – a name she knows all too well. Wood is facing execution on 13 March for the 1987 murder of Fulton’s teenage daughter, Desiree Wheatley, along with five other girls and young women. “I promised Desi at her gravesite that I would find out who did this and make them pay,” Fulton told Wood’s lawyers that afternoon. Now, she was making plans to attend the execution.
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1 month ago |
themarshallproject.org | Maurice Chammah
Two months ago, Marcia Fulton received a knock on her door in El Paso, Texas, from lawyers for David Wood — a name she knows all too well. Wood is facing execution on March 13 for the 1987 murder of Fulton’s teenage daughter, Desiree Wheatley, along with five other girls and young women. “I promised Desi at her gravesite that I would find out who did this and make them pay,” Fulton told Wood’s lawyers that afternoon. Now she was making plans to attend the execution.
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1 month ago |
themarshallproject.org | Maurice Chammah
Additional reporting by Alvin Melathe On March 13, Texas plans to execute David Wood, who became known in the press as the “Desert Killer” after prosecutors argued he killed six girls and women and buried their bodies on the outskirts of El Paso in 1987. He has maintained his innocence for nearly four decades. But his lawyers struggled to prove it. Their first major break came in 2011, when a DNA test revealed another man’s blood on one of the victims’ clothing.
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2 months ago |
themarshallproject.org | Maurice Chammah
The Trump administration recently pledged to help executioners across the country secure lethal injection drugs. But many drug companies still refuse to sell them, so some state officials are looking at other options. This week, Alabama plans to carry out its fourth nitrogen gas execution in roughly a year. And the firing squad is also emerging as a likely contender. South Carolina presented it as an option to the last three men executed in the state; none chose it.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
themarshallproject.org | Shannon Heffernan |Maurice Chammah
Shortly after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an order to expand the death penalty, confirming a widespread expectation that the Department of Justice may seek capital punishment more often under his administration. The first Trump administration carried out more executions than any president in at least a century. But legal experts say the order is short on details about how the administration will carry out its plans in the face of legal and bureaucratic barriers.
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Last year, I wrote about efforts to make prisons less hellacious — not just for prisoners but for the people working there too. The DOJ just told @verainstitute it won't fund this work anymore. You could argue that makes law enforcement less safe. https://t.co/0SYA4fMwl5 https://t.co/wyu4Ppokmm
Tomorrow, South Carolina plans to use the firing squad to execute Mikal Mahdi for the 2004 murders of a police officer and a store clerk. More and more states might start using the method. https://t.co/5EH7P4NVQI
RT @caryaspinwall: Missouri is unique in that it only allows direct innocence claims for those serving a death sentence. Even after the jud…
