Skip to main content

Death Penalty

Clarence Dixon, Navajo, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1977 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student. (Photo by Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry)
News

Navajo man executed in Arizona prison

By Indian Country Today2 hours ago
Douglas Ray Stankewitz, Monache/Cherokee, has spent 43 years in San Quentin Prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit: the carjacking and murder of 21-year-old Theresa Graybeal in Fresno, California in 1978. In 2022, his lawyers have raised another round of appeals that could give him a chance to get out of prison on parole. He spoke to Indian Country Today about his life behind bars. (Illustration by Paige Pettibon for The Marshall Project/reprinted with permission)
News

Life Inside: California’s longest-serving Death Row prisoner

By Richard Arlin WalkerMar 18, 2022