Holder’s attorney, Madeline Cohen, told the Associated Press, “Norris has always been deeply ... Holder and Allen were two of 37 federal death row inmates to have their sentences commuted.

Norris Blaine initially claimed to be innocent, but as the DA was ready to seek the death penalty for the murder, he took a plea deal just ahead of the trial in exchange for life in prison without ...

All people on death row were convicted on murder charges ... Billie Jermone Allen, 45, and Norris G. Holder, co-defendants sentenced in 1998 for the death of a bank guard during an armed bank ...

Madeline Cohen, an attorney for Norris Holder, who faced death for the 1997 fatal shooting of a guard during a bank robbery in St. Louis, said his case ''exemplifies the racial bias and ...