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Use of capital punishment by states continues its steady decline, with fewer death sentences handed down in 2009 than any year since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976.
Not many will notice, but SMU will play its first bowl game since being handed the death penalty 25 years ago. Its effects were so damaging that it has actually rendered the NCAA powerless against its cash cows, Ray Ratto says.
A Southern California jury has recommended the death penalty for a 71-year old man who killed two Riverside police officers nearly three decades ago.
A jury recommended the death penalty for a 71-year-old paraplegic who killed two Riverside police officers 27 years ago and was first sentenced to death in 1984.
The daughter of Raymond Goodwill Jr. wants her father's killer to face the death penalty. "Prison isn't enough for him," Deb Craig said today. "He needs to feel what death is about."
Twenty years ago SMU football players took the field for the first time in two years. The reason for their two-year absence: the Death Penalty.
The Everett woman and two co-defendants could be executed if found guilty. TUCSON, Ariz.— An Arizona judge has cleared the way for prosecutors to seek the death penalty for an Everett woman and two men, each charged in connection with a fatal home-invasion robbery.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against any of the three men charged in the death of New Iberia gun shop owner Sidney Long Jr.
A Wyandotte County district judge ruled Tuesday that evidence supports capital murder and other charges against a man accused of four murders. After the ruling, District Attorney Jerome Gorman immediately filed for the death penalty against Adrian Burks, 38.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Jurors have recommended the death penalty for a 26-year-old man convicted of killing a police officer in California. The same jurors who convicted Alberto Alvarez of murder with special circumstances in November determined Tuesday that he should be sentenced to death.
ELYRIA — An Elyria man could face the death penalty if he’s convicted in connection with a botched robbery Sunday that left two men dead and a third critically injured. Elyria City Prosecutor Jay Grunda said the nature of the crimes that Brady Phillips is accused of could warrant seeking a death sentence in the case. Phillips, [...]
Three men accused of gunning down a Tracy man on his birthday last Friday could face the death penalty if convicted, a judge told them today.
WASHINGTON - Five Republican House members are urging the president of Uganda to oppose a proposed law that would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans.
Five Republican House members, including New Jersey's Rep. Chris Smith, are urging the president of Uganda to oppose a proposed law that would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans.
ALWAYS TRACKING: On Monday Greene County Prosecutor's informed the court they would not seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Christopher Hitchcock and Jacqueline Tomlinson. Hitchcock is charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery, and Tomlinson is charged as accomplice to capital murder and aggravated robbery.
ELYRIA — An Elyria man charged with murder in connection with a botched robbery that left two dead and a third critically wounded learned today that he could face the death penalty if convicted. Brady Phillips, 38, gave only one-word answers during his initial appearance before Elyria Municipal Court Judge Lisa Locke Graves via a video [...]
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