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In light of the recent problems over a lethal injection gone wrong in Ohio, the Buckeye State released a new execution policy on Monday. The state also opened its “death house” to the media, including WSAZ.com’s Randy Yohe.
As Ohio's new death penalty procedure goes into effect, 10TV gives you a closer look inside the execution chamber.
Maricopa County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a Binghamton man charged with slaying his ex-girlfriend with a screwdriver.
Prosecutors in Ohio are seeking the death penalty for a registered sex offender charged with 11 counts of aggravated murder.
The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of a southeast Missouri man because his attorney didn't question the character of a murder victim who had child pornography on his computer.
The decision makes clear that lawyers for clients facing the death penalty must show evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder from military service if it is available.
A previously blocked execution set for Dec. 8 can now go forward due to a change in Ohio's lethal injection policies, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Ohio is the first to drop the three-drug approach in favor of one dose.
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.
WASHINGTON - After Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20thhijacker" in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was sentenced to life inprison in 2006 because one juror refused to agree to the deathpenalty, he clapped and called out, "America, you lost and Iwon."
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.
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 ...
Prosecutor expects to seek the death penalty
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
