A Madison County prosecutor projects for 2021 that two murder cases "could possibly be set by the end of the year."

The Equal Justice Initiative has won reversal of a death sentence imposed on its client by a non-unanimous jury that was lied to repeatedly by the government. The court instructed the jury not once, but TWICE, that a misdemeanor offense on the accused's record counted as a violent felony for purposes of a qualifying aggravating factor required to deliver a death sentence.