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Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
Thomas Bartlett "Bart" Whitaker (born 1979) is a Texas prisoner serving life without parole for conspiring in the 2003 murders of his mother and brother; his death sentence was commuted by Governor Abbott in February 2018, and he founded the prison-writing site Minutes Before Six.
Tiffany Cole
Tiffany Ann Cole (born 1981) is a Florida woman convicted with Michael Jackson, Alan Wade, and Bruce Nixon of the 2005 kidnapping and live burial of James and Carol Sumner; sentenced to death in 2008, sentences vacated in 2017 under Hurst.
Timothy Evans
Timothy Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950), Welshman wrongfully hanged at Pentonville for murdering his daughter at 10 Rillington Place, London; real killer was neighbor John Christie; free pardon 1966, innocence affirmed 2004.
Tommy Lee Walker
Tommy Lee Walker (1935–1956), a Black Dallas man wrongfully convicted in 1954 of murdering Venice Parker and executed in 1956; exonerated posthumously by Dallas County on January 21, 2026. Distinct from the Ninth Circuit felon-in-possession defendant of the same name.
Tower Hill
Tower Hill, open ground north and west of the Tower of London in Trinity Square, was London's public execution site for Tower prisoners, about 125 beheadings and hangings from 1388 to 1780, memorialized by 29 names.
Troy Davis
Troy Anthony Davis, Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1991 of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail; seven of nine eyewitnesses recanted, no physical evidence, executed September 21, 2011.
United States v Burns
United States v Burns, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 283 (2001 SCC 7): Supreme Court of Canada case holding that extraditing Canadian citizens Burns and Rafay to Washington without death penalty assurances violates Charter section 7, reversing Kindler.
Vasily Blokhin (Василий Михайлович Блохин)
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Василий Михайлович Блохин), 1895–1955, Soviet NKVD Major General and chief executioner under Stalin; personally shot about 7,000 Polish officers at Kalinin in 1940 and tens of thousands overall.
Walter McMillian
Walter McMillian ("Johnny D") was a Monroeville, Alabama logger wrongfully convicted of Ronda Morrison's 1986 murder, sentenced to death by judicial override, and exonerated in 1993 after six years on death row.
William Kemmler
William Kemmler (William Francis Kemmler), Buffalo vegetable vendor convicted in 1889 of murdering Matilda Ziegler; first person executed by electric chair, Auburn Prison, August 6, 1890, in a botched two-jolt electrocution upheld in People ex rel. Kemmler v. Durston and In re Kemmler.
Willie Francis
Willie Francis, Louisiana Black teenager who survived a botched 1946 electrocution; his case, Francis v. Resweber (1947), let the state execute him again on May 9, 1947.
Wrongful execution
Wrongful execution is the execution of a person wrongly convicted of a capital crime. Key measures: 203 U.S. death-row exonerations since 1973, one exoneration per 8 executions, and DPIC's list of executed people with credible innocence claims.