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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.
An execution timeline has been set for the so-called "stocking strangler". It appears Carlton Gary will face death by lethal injection within the next 20 days
2,000 SAY GOODBYE TO SHANIYA DAVIS AT FUNERAL (FAYETTEVILLE) They packed the church and beyond Sunday to eulogize a defenseless five-year-old girl of promise who police say was sold by her mother for prostitution, kidnapped, raped, strangled to death and left in the woods.
A judge on Wednesday ruled that prosecutors should be allowed to have their own experts conduct a mental examination of a man facing the death penalty for allegedly beating a toddler to death last year.
Circuit Judge William Wright ruled today that convicted murderer Wesley Williams will not face the death penalty in the deaths of Danielle Baker and her three children, Aaron, Amarion and Ahmaad Baker in Marianna
BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Kentucky Enquirer reported a prosecutor told a judge in Burlington on Thursday she intends to ask for capital punishment in the trial of Willa Blanc. Blanc, a former cleaning woman, is ...
Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of Walter Sartory, 73, a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Coach Urban Meyer said yesterday that defensive end Carlos Dunlap won’t play for top-ranked Florida in Saturday’s Southeastern Conference championship game, adding that there is no timetable for his return.
A suspected serial killer on Thursday pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the murders of 11 women whose remains were found in and around his Ohio home, prosecutors said.
Serial Killer Suspect Accused of Raping, Killing 11 Women
Bobby Wayne Woods, whose I.Q. hovers around the level of a mildly retarded person’s, was convicted of the killing of an 11-year-old girl in 1997.
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ next private conference on Friday, December 4. As always, it lists the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted. Links to all previous editions are available in our SCOTUSwiki archive. Docket: 08-1332; [...]
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- People often set their personal moral compasses according to what they presume to be God's standards, U.S. and Australian researchers found.
The death warrant Muscogee Superior Court Judge Robert Johnston signed today schedules Gary’s death by lethal injection for Dec. 16 through Dec. 23, a time frame from which the Georgia Department of Corrections may choose a date.
By: JEAN-PAUL ARGUELLO Assistant News Editor An Orleans Parish judge determined that a man accused of killing a Loyola alumna in 2007 is now mentally competent to stand trial after two years of treatment at a high security mental hospital....
A registered sex offender accused of killing 11 women and leaving their remains in and around his Cleveland home has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to all charges.
