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The state of Virginia is scheduled to execute John Allen Muhammad via lethal injection on Nov. 10 for the 2002 murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 killings during a a three-week rampage around the Washington, D.C. area
GRAHAM — The state announced Monday during a hearing that it will not pursue the death penalty in the case of a man accused of killing his wife and setting their home on fire earlier this year. Mark Keith Porter Jr. faces charges of first-degree...
Experts warn that death penalty cases are so rare in the military, and so prone to big mistakes, that death sentences rarely stick.
As Seattle police continued to search the weapons-filled apartment of Christopher John Monfort, suspected of gunning down Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night, King County prosecutors Sunday readied themselves to file a potential death-penalty charge against him. Defense attorneys already are jockeying for assignment to his case, according to several attorneys. Monfort’s family has ...
The Seacoast is well represented on a legislative commission studying the death penalty in New Hampshire.
Pittsburgh Faith in Action Against the Death Penalty will sponsor an interfaith dialogue on the use of capital punishment Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the John Knox Room of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, East Liberty.
Barring an eleventh hour intervention by the governor of Virginia, the D.C. sniper John Muhammad will be put to death tomorrow for his role in...
BOISE – Fewer Idaho prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in murder cases in recent years. The Idaho Statesman reports that only two counties have asked for the death penalty in murder cases since 2003, and Ada County prosecutors haven’t pursued capital punishment since jurors declined to find two defendants eligible for the death penalty in 2005.
By Matt Viser, Globe Staff US Representative Michael Capuano today blasted Attorney General Martha Coakley's decision to get involved in an Alabama death penalty case, saying the man they are vying to succeed in the Senate, Edward M. Kennedy, "would...
WOODSTOCK – McHenry County State’s Attorney Louis Bianchi said he would not hesitate to seek the death penalty against violent criminals such as Mark Smith or Brian Dugan.
WALLA WALLA -- It seems the older I get, the harder it is to figure some things out.
Larry Williams expected to wait 10 years to see the death sentence carried out for his daughter's killer. Now, 13 years later, Williams said he may have to wait another decade before Gary Kleypas exhausts his appeals.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that terrorized the suburbs of the nation's capital, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia.
WALLA WALLA — Want to start a good argument?
Virginia has executed 103 inmates since the first execution after reinstatement of the death penalty in 1982
Death penalty opponents brought their message to Western Kentucky University on Thursday night, prompting outrage and tears from the audience with personal accounts of wrongful imprisonment on death row and urging action on two death penalty bills pending before the Kentucky legislature.
