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Walter Ogrod case. Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn's murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false.
April 3, 2024 at 1:21 PM. FALLSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities said Wednesday they plan to pursue the death penalty against a man charged with killing his stepmother, sister and the ...
FBI surveillance photograph of the Lucchese crime family members Vic Amuso, Anthony Casso and Frank Lastorino. Frank "Big Frank" Lastorino (April 9, 1939 – November 5, 2022) [121] was a soldier, caporegime and consigliere of the Lucchese family. Lastorino was formally inducted into the crime family in 1987. [122]
Chemirmir first faced a capital murder trial for the slaying of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris, who was found dead in her bedroom with lipstick smeared on her pillow, but it ended in mistrial in 2021 ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; [3] April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he has written and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States.
Stanford University ( JD) Lawrence Samuel Krasner [1] (born March 30, 1961) is an American lawyer who is the 26th District Attorney of Philadelphia. [2] Elected to the position in 2017, Krasner was one of the first in the United States to run as a self-described "progressive prosecutor". [3] He campaigned on a platform to reform elements of the ...
Law enforcement found the remains of Tylee and JJ on Chad Daybell’s Fremont County property in June 2020, authorities said. The state is seeking the death penalty.
Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Pennsylvania. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Pennsylvania since 1999, and only three since 1976 (all occurring in the 1990s, during the governorship of Tom Ridge ). In February 2015, Governor Tom Wolf announced a formal moratorium on executions that is still in ...