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Should Ohio, one of 35 states that currently use some form of lethal injection, be using the death penalty as the ultimate form of punishment? On Friday some local residents expressed their opinions about that topic. Anna Koon, 78, of Marietta had some concerns. "I have mixed feelings," she said.
COLUMBUS - The state's new lethal-injection plan is so untested that it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month, an attorney for a condemned inmate said in a Friday court filing. There is no reason for federal courts to allow the scheduled Dec.
What's Your Reaction? NEW YORK — New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
He didn't pull the trigger and he used to wear the uniform of a deputy sheriff, and that's probably why prosecutors announced Friday they will not pursue the death penalty against Chu Vue, according to a criminal law expert.
New York juries areoften loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.
CENTRALIA, Ill. —The trial of an autistic Southern Illinois man in the rape and stabbing death of a Centralia first-grade teacher can go forward now that the prosecution has agreed state law does not allow the death penalty.Neil Barrall, 29, of Centralia, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the October 2007 slaying of Rita Michelle Caveletto. Prosecutors in Marion County allege Barrall ...
A filing U.S. District Court shows Ohio will reduce from three to one the number of drugs used in lethal injection executions, with a muscle injection available as a back up.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal injection plan is so untested that it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.
The District Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty against former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Chu Vue in his murder trial, a prosecutor said in court today.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s Constitutional Court extended a moratorium on capital punishment, ruling that the ban introduced in 1999 had set in motion an “irreversible process” toward the abolition of capital punishment in Russia.
COLUMBUS -- The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s Constitutional Court extended a moratorium on capital punishment, ruling that the ban introduced in 1999 had set in motion an “irreversible process” leading toward the abolition of capital punishment in Russia.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty for a former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy accuse of murdering a state correctional officer.
Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by Russia's Constitutional Court that brings the country a step closer to abolishing the death penalty.
The Russian Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered that the death penalty cannot be applied in Russia even after January 1 when a moratorium expires.
The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
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