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Virginia executed John Allen Muhammad via lethal injection on Nov. 10 for the 2002 murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 killed during a a three-week rampage in the Washington, D.C., area
Russia's Constitutional Court held hearings Monday on whether a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force next year.
Kentucky is spending millions of dollars each year on a capital-punishment system so ineffective that more death-row inmates are dying of natural causes than are being executed.
Arkansans support the death penalty for a variety of reasons, but chief among them is cost.
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly against capital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponents by urging the US Supreme Court to limit federal review of state court decisions, which opponents say could make it harder for defendants on death row to challenge their sentences.
A Pima County jury has decided a 59-year-old Tucson man is eligible for the death penalty, and defense attorneys will begin presenting evidence today that is intended to save his life.
John Allen Muhammad, the man who masterminded the Beltway sniper attacks seven years ago in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland, is set to be executed today by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an application for a stay.
Brian Dugan deserves nothing less than the death penalty for brutally murdering 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in 1983, DuPage County prosecutors argued today as closing arguments began in Dugan's sentencing. "That is justice and that is what we are asking for," prosecutor Michael Wolfe told jurors who will decide Dugan's fate. Following an unusual five-week sentencing hearing, the jury must ...
A new poll shows Virginians are broadly in favor of the death penalty for those convicted of murder.
The Washington sniper has been executed for a 2002 reign of terror that claimed 10 lives and left the US capital paralyzed in fear for three long weeks.
The anti-death penalty movement is resurrecting the worn out talking point that executing people who murder innocent men, women, and children is too expensive. They...
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who killed and mutilated a man he met in a gay bar in 1985, rejecting a claim that his lawyers erred during the sentencing phase of his trial.
For more than three years, Jamie Weis sat in jail awaiting trial in a capital murder case. On Tuesday, his attorneys went before the Georgia Supreme Court to ask them to dismiss the case - or at least the death penalty portion of the case - on the grounds that Weis was denied his right to a speedy trial. The case began with Justice Hugh Thompson asking if “this is the case that’s going to ...
International death penalty expert and trial lawyer Stephen B. Bright will deliver his lecture “The Right To Counsel in Death Penalty and Other Criminal Cases ...” Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m....
Dugan may be facing the death penalty for the murder of 10 yr. old Jeanine Nicarico A DuPage County jury is scheduled to close arguments in the death penalty case of Brian Dugan today.
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