Crime & Safety
3 Death Row Inmates From Alameda County Resentenced After Misconduct Probe
Ernest Dykes, who was convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in 1993, is expected to be released from prison next year.
July 17, 2024
Three death row inmates have been resentenced, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Tuesday afternoon.
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Ernest Dykes, who was convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in 1993, is expected to be released from prison next year with two years of probation. Keith Thomas, sentenced to death in 1997, will receive 23 years to life in prison. But having served 31 years, Thomas will be up for parole. And Gregory Tate, sentenced in 1993, will receive a life sentence without parole.
In April, a U.S. District Court judge ordered Price to conduct a review of all of Alameda County's 35 death penalty sentences with inmates still alive, which date back to the late 1970s. The order came after the court, while reviewing Dykes' case, found that prosecutors had excluded Black and Jewish people from the jury.
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