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Attorney General Eric Holder has said he is not a proponent of capital punishment. But by Oct. 3, he had authorized death penalty prosecutions at a pace comparable to that of his immediate predecessor.
BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Kentucky Enquirer reported a prosecutor told a judge in Burlington on Thursday she intends to ask for capital punishment in the trial of Willa Blanc. Blanc, a former cleaning woman, is ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky won't appeal a court ruling that found it failed to follow proper administrative procedures when it adopted its lethal injection method.
Kentucky will not appeal a ruling striking down how it adopted its lethal injection protocol and will hold public hearings before putting a new execution process in place.
Ohio plans to execute Northeast Ohio inmate Kenneth Biros next week in Lucasville using a new lethal injection protocol for the first time. While media outlets across the state will likely cover the story, few Ohioans will witness the execution. And as Statehouse correspondent Jo Ingles reports, even fewer Ohioans will witness the events leading up to it. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports.
One of Kentucky's most notorious killers has spent a quarter of a century on death row. But the state could further delay Victor Taylor's execution, after the state Supreme Court ruled the protocol for lethal injection is illegal.
A Rock Island County judge ruled Friday that Elijah Reid is notmentally retarded by the court's definition and is eligible to facethe death penalty.
If former Columbia Water and Light Director James Kraig Kahler is found guilty of capital murder in a Kansas court, he could receive a sentence of death by lethal injection. However, the chance of an execution in Kansas seems unlikely considering the history of the death penalty in the state. Ten men are already awaiting execution on death row, but no one has been put to death in Kansas since ...
Perry County District Attorney Charles “Chad” Chenot may pursue the death penalty against one of two people formally arraigned on murder charges in separate cases Thursday.
A Clearfield man could face the death penalty if convicted of the slayings of a Roy woman and her son.
The man convicted of killing a North Port wife and mother was sentenced to the death penalty on Friday.The death sentence was for the murder of Denise Amber Lee in January 2008.Michael King was also convicted of kidnapping her, for which he was sentenced to life in prison, and rape, for which he was sentenced to 30 years. Read NBC-2’s report
A jury today recommended the death penalty for a former Camp Pendleton Marine sergeant who tortured and killed a young mother who interrupted him during a burglary of her Vista home more than four years ago.
Man charged with killing University City police officer will face death penalty
Michael King, 38, has been sentenced to death for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee. Judge upholds sentence Jury recommends death penalty for Michael King (Sept. 4, 2009) Previous stories on the case
Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A New Orleans police officer who ordered a hit on a woman should not get the death penalty because of prosecution errors and misconduct, his attorneys argued.
