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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 ...
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.
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 ...
A Clearfield man could face the death penalty if convicted of the slayings of a Roy woman and her son.
Man charged with killing University City police officer will face death penalty
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.
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.
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.
The state will not seek the death penalty against a Lincoln man accused of murdering a 2-year-old boy. Ty C. Cline, 38, appeared before Circuit Judge Thomas Harris in a Logan County courtroom Thursday afternoon for a status hearing.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch says he will seek the death penalty against a man suspected of killing a police officer.
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch said he will seek the death penalty against a man suspected of killing a St. Louis police officer. Todd Shepard is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of University City Sgt. Michael King on Halloween 2008. The intention to seek the death penalty was announced during a hearing Wednesday. The trial ...
A 44-year-old Texas man has been executed for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite his attorneys' pleas that he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment. Bobby Wayne Woods received lethal injection Thursday evening moments after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt his execution. His lawyers had argued Woods was mentally impaired, making him ineligible for ...
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Casey Anthony said they will argue a motion in court in Orange County, Fla., against the possibility of their client facing the death penalty.
A South Peoria man could face the death penalty for allegedly shooting a person in June during an attempted armed robbery.
