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Kimberly Cargill
Cargill blev dømt for mordet i 2010 på sine børns babysitter, Cherry Walker. Anklagerne siger, at Walker skulle vidne i Cargills høring om forældremyndigheden.
5 år, 4 måneder og 5 dage
Mange familiemedlemmer vidnede mod Cargill. Tre af Cargills fire sønner vidnede, at Cargill ofte kvalte, sparkede og slog dem, og at hun ændrede låsene på deres soveværelsesdøre, så hun kunne låse dem inde. Cargills eksmænd var også i vidneskranken, hvoraf den ene vidnede om, at Cargill satte ild til hans lejlighed.


Linda Carty
Carty blev dømt for bortførelsen og mordet på den 25-årige Joana Rodriguez for at stjæle hendes nyfødte søn. Anklagerne hævdede, at Carty havde organiseret forbrydelsen, som blev begået af tre maskerede mænd, der bortførte Rodriguez og hendes søn. Rodriguez blev senere fundet død i bagagerummet på en bil. Hendes tre dage gamle søn blev reddet ud af en bil, der holdt parkeret i nærheden. De tre andre mænd blev anholdt, men kun Carty blev retsforfulgt for drab med døden til følge.
15 år, 7 måneder og 5 dage
Carty hævder, at hun blev snydt af narkohandlere som reaktion på hendes arbejde som informant, og hun har appelleret sin dom. Hendes appeller har været forgæves, og appelproceduren er blevet udtømt. Medmindre hun får benådning, vil hun blive den første kvindelige britiske statsborger, der bliver henrettet siden Ruth Ellis i 1955, og den første britiske sorte kvinde, der er blevet henrettet i mere end et århundrede. I 2014 tilbageviste nøglevidner mod hende, herunder en DEA-agent, som hun arbejdede som meddeler for, og hævdede, at anklageren havde tvunget dem til at vidne mod hende. Den pensionerede DEA-specialagent Charles Mathis anklagede anklageren Connie Spence for at true med at påstå i retten, at han havde haft en affære med Carty. Mathis benægter affæren, men var bekymret for den virkning, det ville have på hans karriere. To af Cartys medtiltalte anklager anklagerne for at true dem med dødsstraf og for at give dem historier, der implicerer Carty. Hendes medtiltalte, Chris Robinson, vidnede mod hende under retssagen, men har sidenhen trukket sig tilbage og hævder, at anklagerne tvang ham til at vidne, at han så Carty sætte en affaldssæk over Rodriguez' hoved, da Rodriguez lå i bagagerummet, og hævder, at historien er usand. "Da vi øvede, sagde jeg historien tilbage til dem, og de stoppede mig og tilføjede noget eller fjernede noget og fik mig så til at fortsætte. De stoppede mig ved at sige: 'Vent, vent, vent, det er det her, der skete'," sagde han i sin erklæring. Anklagerne om drab på Robinson blev droppet til gengæld for hans vidneudsagn. En anden medtiltalt, Gerald Anderson, som ikke blev indkaldt til at vidne, hævdede, at anklagemyndigheden også forsøgte at få ham til at vidne falsk mod Carty.


Brittany Holberg
Brittany Holberg blev dømt for røveriet og mordet den 13. november 1996 på den 80-årige A.B. Towery Sr. i hans hjem i det sydvestlige Amarillo.
19 år, 6 måneder og 15 dage
Holberg arbejdede som prostitueret og blev hyret af Towery. Under retssagen argumenterede forsvarsadvokat Catherine Brown Dodson for, at Towery fejlagtigt blev fremstillet som en uskyldig ældre mand, og at Holberg handlede i selvforsvar, da Towery angreb hende. Dodson sagde, at A.B. Towery blev vred og voldelig, da han fandt en crackpibe på Holberg. Hun fortalte juryen, at Towery slog Holberg to gange i hovedet med en metalpande, mens hun vendte ryggen til, og derefter truede han hende med en kniv. Holberg reagerede ved at stikke ham med sin egen kniv, og slagsmålet eskalerede, indtil Holberg stak lygtepælen i munden for at forsøge at afslutte kampen. Holberg mente, at hun ikke ville have mange juridiske muligheder på grund af sin status som prostitueret med narkotikamisbrug, og flygtede til Tennessee. Vidneudsagn viste, at A.B. Towery, offeret, også havde et problem med stoffer. Siden sin dom har Holberg talt om dødsstraf, har talt om misbrug i Texas' strafferetssystem og har opfordret til bedre forhold for fanger.


Melissa Elizabeth Lucio
Lucio blev dømt for mordet på sin 2-årige datter, et af hendes ni børn. Kvinden fortalte myndighederne, at barnet var faldet ned ad trappen, men læger på skadestuen fandt ud af, at hun havde blå mærker på hele kroppen, bidemærker på ryggen, en arm, der var blevet brækket flere uger tidligere, og hun manglede hår, der var blevet trukket ud af hovedet med rødderne.
9 år og 2 måneder



Darlie Routier
Routier blev dømt i forbindelse med knivstikkeriet af sine to små sønner i 1996. Routier selv fik en række sår. Hun fastholder, at angrebet blev udført af en ubuden gæst. Anklageren hævder, at Routier selv påførte sig sårene, og at hun var gerningsmanden. Routiers lille søn og hendes mand sov ovenpå og var uskadte.
20 år, 8 måneder og 8 dage
Der er blevet sat spørgsmålstegn ved Routiers dom i de seneste år. Hun blev dømt i vid udstrækning på grundlag af vidneudsagnet fra blodpletanalytikeren Tom Bevel, som har spillet en rolle i flere nyligt opdagede uretmæssige domme. Andre gerningsstedseksperter har offentligt kritiseret sagen mod Routier, og et jurymedlem har offentligt erklæret, at han nu mener, at hun er uskyldig. Routier samler penge ind for at få foretaget nye DNA-tests på beviser fra gerningsstedet, og gruppen Investigating Innocence, der forsvarer uretmæssige domme, har taget hendes sag til sig. David Camm, som selv blev uretmæssigt dømt på grundlag af Bevels vidneudsagn, undersøger hendes sag.


Erica Yvonne Sheppard
Sammen med James Dickerson blev Sheppard dømt for at have dræbt Marilyn Meagher som led i et røveri.
22 år, 7 måneder og 9 dage
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Kimberly Cargill
Cargill was convicted of the 2010 murder of her children's babysitter, Cherry Walker. Prosecutors say Walker was scheduled to testify in Cargill's child custody hearing.
5 years, 4 months and 5 days
Many family members testified against Cargill. Three of Cargill's four sons testified that Cargill would frequently choke, kick and hit them and that she changed the locks on their bedroom doors so she could lock them inside. Cargill's ex-husbands also took the stand, one of whom testified that Cargill set his apartment on fire.


Linda Carty
Carty was convicted for the abduction and murder of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez, in order to steal her newborn son. Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son. Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder.
15 years, 7 months and 5 days
Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. In 2014, key witnesses against her, including a DEA agent for whom she worked as an informant, recanted and claimed they were coerced into testifying against her by the prosecutor. Retired DEA Special Agent Charles Mathis accused prosecutor Connie Spence with threatening to allege in court that he had had an affair with Carty. Mathis denies the affair, but was concerned the effect it would have on his career. Two of Carty's co-defendants accuse prosecutors of threatening them with the death sentence and of feeding them stories implicating Carty. Her co-defendant, Chris Robinson, testified against her at her trial, but has since recanted, claiming that prosecutors coerced him to testify that he saw Carty put a trash bag over Rodriguez's head when Rodriguez was in the trunk, claiming the story is untrue. "When we were rehearsing I would say the story back to them they would stop me and add something in or take it out then make me keep going. They would stop me by saying 'Wait, wait, this is what happened,' " he said in his affidavit. Capital murder charges were dropped against Robinson in exchange for his testimony. Another co-defendant, Gerald Anderson, who was not called to testify, alleged that prosecutors attempted to get him to testify falsely against Carty as well.


Brittany Holberg
Brittany Holberg was convicted of the November 13, 1996, robbery and murder of 80-year-old A.B. Towery Sr. in his southwest Amarillo home.
19 years, 6 months and 15 days
Holberg was working as a prostitute and was hired by Towery. During the trial, defense attorney Catherine Brown Dodson argued that Towery was wrongly portrayed as an innocent elderly man, and that Holberg acted in self-defense when Towery attacked her. Dodson said A.B. Towery became angry and violent when he found a crack pipe on Holberg. She told the jury that Towery struck Holberg twice in the head with a metal pan while her back was turned, and then threatened her with a knife. Holberg reacted by stabbing him with her own knife, and the fight escalated until Holberg put the lamp post in his mouth to attempt to end the struggle. Holberg believed she would have little legal recourse because of her status as a drug-abusing prostitute and fled to Tennessee. Testimony showed that A.B. Towery, the victim, also had a problem with drugs. Since her conviction, Holberg has spoken out about the death penalty, has talked of abuse in the Texas Criminal Justice system, and has called for better conditions for prisoners.


Melissa Elizabeth Lucio
Lucio was convicted in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, one of her nine children. The woman told authorities the child had fallen down the stairs, but physicians in the ER found she had bruises covering her body, bite marks on her back, an arm that had been broken weeks earlier, and was missing hair that had been pulled by the roots from her head.
9 years and 2 months



Darlie Routier
Routier was convicted in the 1996 stabbing of her two young sons. Routier herself sustained a number of wounds. She maintains the attack was by an intruder. The prosecutor maintains Routier's wounds were self-inflicted and she was the perpetrator. Routier's infant son and her husband were asleep upstairs and were unharmed.
20 years, 8 months and 8 days
Routier's conviction has come into question in recent years. She was convicted largely on the basis of the testimony of bloodstain analyst Tom Bevel, who has played a role in several recently discovered wrongful convictions. Other crime scene experts have publicly criticized the case against Routier and one juror has publicly stated that he now believes she is innocent. Routier is collecting funds to perform new DNA testing on evidence at the crime scene and wrongful conviction advocacy group Investigating Innocence has taken her case. David Camm, who himself was wrongfully convicted on the basis of Bevel's testimony, is investigating her case.


Erica Yvonne Sheppard
Along with James Dickerson, Sheppard was convicted of killing Marilyn Meagher as part of a robbery.
22 years, 7 months and 9 days
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