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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
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.
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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.
Paula Dowdy, 25, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Friday and agreed to testify against her brother, Shuan Dowdy, 22, in the New Year's Day killing of Djuan Newsome.
CONCORD – A Mont Vernon legislator unveiled plans Tuesday to expand the death penalty to include home invasions by those who have the intent to kill.
Testimony wraps up; jurors to hear closing arguments Tuesday After five weeks of testimony and about 70 witnesses, a DuPage County jury will hear closing arguments Tuesday in the death penalty sentencing hearing for Brian Dugan for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, of Naperville.
MANASSAS — Virginia prosecutor Paul Ebert knows how to land the big ones. His office is lined with pictures of his adventures on the water — an 800-pound blue marlin hooked off the coast of Australia, a 260-pound halibut, citations for tuna and other trophies.
A jury has recommended the death penalty for a man they convicted of fatally beating his fiancee days before their wedding was to take place. The Sussex County Superior Court jury voted 11-1 for the death sentence instead of life in prison for 46-year-old Emmett Taylor III of Millsboro.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop the execution of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night seven years after he and his then-teenage accomplice terrorized the District, Maryland and Virginia. The court's decision exhausts Muhammad's legal options, leaving an unlikely last-minute intervention by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as his ...
A Sussex County Superior Court jury has recommended the death penalty for Emmett Taylor III, the man convicted late last week in the bludgeoning death of his fiancee just days before their planned 2007 wedding.
With his final appeal denied Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Beltway sniper is almost out of time. Barring a last-minute reprieve by the governor, John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection at 9 tonight in Jarratt. A small town north of Emporia, Jarratt is home to Greensville Correctional Center, where the state carries out all of its death sentences.
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Two Eatonton men pled not guilty Monday at an arraignment hearing at the Houston County superior court.
Suspect faces possible aggravated first-degree-murder charge for shooting Officer Timothy Brenton, who was remembered by former Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, now the nation's drug czar, as wanting "to be a police officer since he was old enough to play cops and robbers."
