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Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys asked the Alabama Supreme ...
Alabama Death Row inmate Toforest Johnson’s supporters are hosting a community event on Sunday, featuring former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, to raise awareness about the decades-old ...
Toforest Johnson, a man who has spent half of his life on death row, claims he is innocent. Johnson wants a new trial to prove that he did not kill a Jefferson County deputy sheriff.
Montgomery, Ala. — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama's death row for the murder of a sheriff's deputy, a killing he says he didn't commit.
Toforest Johnson should not be on death row. I’m not the first person to think that. I doubt I’ll be the last. A jury convicted Johnson in 1998 of the murder of William Hardy, an off-duty ...
There is renewed hope for the family of an Alabama death row inmate. Sign up for our Newsletters A brief filed Wednesday ...
It has now been nearly three years since I first wrote about Toforest Johnson, a 49-year-old man who has sat on Alabama’s death row for 24 years, despite strong evidence that he is innocent.That ...
Kenneth Smith marked Alabama's third failed execution The uncompleted execution of Smith was the state’s second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff's deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy, a killing he says he did not commit.