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Three inmates on Washington’s death row took another step closer to execution recently when Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham ruled that the state’s lethal injection procedures are constitutional.
If Michael John Parrish is convicted and gets the death penalty for killing his son and girlfriend, he'll join exclusive group of thugs scheduled to die for crimes committed in Monroe County.
Mobster Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano is threatening to play lawyer at his own death penalty murder trial - possibly cross-examining his ex-boss turned mob rat, fallen Bonanno chieftain Joseph Massino.
Kidnapping suspect once faced death penalty in N.C. |
The death penalty is a hotly debated issue. In the article "Death penalty criteria must be transparent" (Viewpoints, July 2), Carol Chase and Chris Chambers Goodman say the criteria district attorneys use to charge the death penalty should be more transparent. They erroneously leap to the conclusion that the decision-making process is flawed based on limited responses to a survey.
Sentencing has been delayed for a man facing execution in the death of an Aurora trial witness. A judge was expected to hand down the death penalty Thursday for 23-year-old Robert Ray, but Ray's attorneys told the judge that prosecutors didn't give them the information they needed to cross-examine one trial witness.
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) - Prosecutors have decided against seeking the death penalty against a man charged with killing a western Pennsylvania college student whose body was found in the trunk of her car.
OGDEN -- A judge has again refused to throw out as unconstitutional Utah's death penalty statute in the double-homicide case of Riqo Perea.
Saying he wanted to avoid the death penalty, an alleged gang member pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting a Carson City teen beside U.S. 395 on Mother's Day and wounding a man who had stopped to help.
HOLLIDAYSBURG - Test results yielded no evidence to justify seeking the death penalty in prosecuting a Hollidaysburg-area man accused of killing a Penn State Altoona student in March and hiding her body in the trunk of her car.
LYNN - Capital punishment is a topic that has been the subject of many heated disagreements in public, political and religious arenas for many years and was again the hot topic of conversation at the College Application Education Project's (CAEP) debate held Thursday.
CHARLOTTESVILLE Authorities are trying to determine whether a Charlottesville man who agreed to plead guilty to killing an 11-year-old boy only if he is guaranteed the death penalty is competent to make that decision.
The Papua New Guinea government should abolish the death penalty instead of putting it back into effect, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint letter to Dr.
The Advertiser recently published an Alabama Voices column headlined "Dare defend rights," which unfairly and unjustly criticized Alabama's death penalty system.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - A Charlottesville man who requested the death penalty for killing an 11-year-old boy during a robbery last year changed his mind and instead will spend life behind bars.
The family of Modesto's most notorious criminal, Scott Peterson, is soliciting donations to help pay for his death penalty appeal. The Peterson family has set up a PayPal account to take donations via its Web site. The Petersons say they need to raise $95,000. The money will pay for investigators to review evidence that the Petersons believe will help free their son, who they say was wrongly ...
