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Education. Tufts University ( BA) William Colridge Thompson Jr. (born July 10, 1953) [1] [2] [3] is an American politician who served as the 42nd Comptroller of New York City; sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009.
In 2007, John Thompson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Connick's DA office due to evidence withholding, was awarded a $14 million verdict by a federal court jury. The jury found "that Thompson's 18 years behind bars (14 of which he spent in solitary confinement on death row) were caused by Connick's deliberate failure to train his ...
Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey. Mary Antoine. 30 September 1814. " [K]illed a 'female' who had 'alienated her husband's affection'"; daughter of Abram Antoine [q.v.]; first reported execution of a woman in the State of New York. Charles Thompson and James Peters (aka Peterson) [15] August 1815.
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934) is an American former politician who served as the 39th governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as secretary of State of Illinois from 1991 to 1999 and as lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1991. He was later convicted of federal racketeering ...
Death. Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991. Since Willingham's 2004 execution, significant controversy has arisen over the legitimacy of the guilty ...
In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019, because executions were halted by an official moratorium ordered by Governor Gavin Newsom. [1] Before the moratorium, executions had been frozen by a federal court order since 2006, and the litigation resulting in the court order has been on ...
William Francis Kynaston Thompson (1909–1980), British officer who fought and was captured at Arnhem. William Thompson (admiral) (1922–2018), American admiral, former chief of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) (1927–1950), Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Glenn Ford (October 29, 1949 – June 29, 2015) was convicted of murder in 1984 and released from Angola Prison in March 2014 after a full exoneration. Ford was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was the longest serving death row inmate in the United States to be fully exonerated before his death. [1] He was denied compensation by the state of ...