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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.
For the first time in seven years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method. Biros brutally murdered Tammy Engstrom, 22, near Warren in 1991. Next week will be the first execution attempt in Ohio since the failed execution ...
The 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham didn't end questions about the Texas death penalty case. Fire investigator experts have since concluded the original finding of arson was seriously flawed. Without that finding, prosecutors have admitted it would have been hard to win a death sentence. But the reports have done nothing to change the minds of Willingham's defense lawyer and four ...
For the first time in seven years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method.
Benito Albarran, who is facing the death penalty for the 2005 murder of Huntsville police officer Daniel Golden, appealed his conviction and death sentence to an Alabama appeals court Tuesday. His lawyers argued there were problems with the jury during the trial and he should not be executed because he is mentally retarded.
ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — A Cleveland man who police say was living with ten dead bodies and a skull has been indicted on 85 counts, including 11 counts of aggravated murder. Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Prosecutor Bill Mason was announcing the indictments Tuesday afternoon in the case against 50-year-old Anthony Sowell. The prosecutor expects to seek the death penalty. Sowell’s home was ...
The recent decision by Ohio to change its method of executing inmates has put the state in the center of the national debate over the death penalty.
CINCINNATI - An inmate whose execution was put on hold as he argued that Ohio's method of lethal injection was unconstitutional can die as scheduled next month, now that the state has instituted a different method, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
If anyone's to bag trophy fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger, why not a feisty fed in pearls and sensational shoes? "I'm very down to earth, I'm...
MANSFIELD -- A DeSoto Parish man pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the 88-year-old mayor of the small town of South Mansfield, who was killed during a robbery at her home. Bobby Harris, 27, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a plea agreement in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in return for a life term without parole ...
For the first time in seven years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method. Biros brutally murdered Tammy Engstrom, 22, near Warren in 1991. Next week will be the first execution attempt in Ohio since the failed execution ...
Prosecutors are asking a Delaware jury to vote in favor of the death penalty for a man the panel convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a jealous rage.
COLUMBUS -- The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one -- as his home state of Ohio has proposed -- as long as the drug works efficiently.
Prosecutor expects to seek the death penalty
COLUMBUS -- Convicted cop killer Maxwell White will have his death sentence appeal heard before the Ohio Supreme Court, the court announced Wednesday.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state improperly adopted its lethal injection protocol and must readopt procedures to administer the three-drug cocktail used to execute condemned inmates
