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Death penalty foes are readying a broad lobbying push to prevent an expansion of capital punishment in Virginia next year, while proponents of scrapping the "triggerman" rule say the lack of a veto threat makes their goal likely to become law.
A man who police say shot a woman over a parking dispute will now serve thirteen and a half years in prison.
Q: What happened to Charles Ng?A: Ng has been on California's death row at San Quentin since June 30, 1999, the day he was sentenced in an Orange County courtroom to die for 11 Calaveras County murders.
HALIFAX — Twenty-two-year-old Joshua Rouse will face the death penalty when he stands trial next year for the brutal murder of Sandy Denise Riedel.
The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed the murder convictions and death sentence of Daniel Ray Wilkes.Wilkes was arrested in April 2006 on charges of killing Donna Claspell and her daughters, 13-year-old Avery Pike and 8-year-old Sydne Claspell, in Claspell's Evansville home. He later admitted the slayings to police.After his trial was moved to Clark County, Ind., a jury found Wilkes guilty of ...
Instead, will send gays to "ex-gay" clinics, counseling.
City council members Tuesday night unanimously confirmed the appointment of Mark A. Crosby as the interim chief of the Del Rio Police Department. Crosby's appointment becomes effective with the resignation of DRPD Chief Waylon Bullard on Friday, Dec. 4.
LITTLE ROCK — The state Supreme Court says it won’t reconsider its ruling ordering a lower court to dismiss a lawsuit that challenged the state’s lethal injection procedures.
An Indiana death row inmate who refused to request clemency is awaiting execution set for early Friday morning.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday threw out the death sentence of a former Van Nuys resident who killed two men with a knife during the botched burglary of a Tarzana home in 1982.
A Eugene truck driver and his wife were arrested and charged today with murdering the woman’s 16-year-old daughter by neglecting and abusing her, officials said. The girl, identified as Jeanette Marie Maples, died Wednesday night at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. Medics from the Eugene Fire Department …
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A Maine Township mother convicted in the torture and beating death of her 5-year-old daughter more than two years ago was sentenced today (Dec. 10) to 39 years in prison.
Authorities say a pregnant Los Angeles woman has been raped and stabbed to death by a former mental patient.
LYNDON -- Following a four-minute hearing Thursday, James Kraig Kahler left the Osage County Courthouse under heavy guard and facing beefed-up charges in the slayings in late November of four members of his family. read more
Michael Brian Miller sentenced to life in prison for murdering wife and 10-year-old daughter in May.
