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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
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."
University of Colorado sociology professor Michael Radelet testifies during former professor Ward Churchill s civil suit against CU earlier this year.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Two Republican lawmakers advising Ohio's Democratic governor on changes to the state's lethal injection process say it shouldn't be hard to fix the system.
Prosecutors in Ohio intend to seek the death penalty against a woman accused of hiring a friend to kill her mother.
An exonerated death-row inmate, a mother of a man on death row and a murder victim's family member all came to Western to share their stories Thursday night. They started telling those stories at 6 p.m. in the Mass Media Auditorium as part of Journey of Hope, an organization that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty, according to the ...
A farmhand facing the death penalty for killing a 12-year-old Greene County girl lost an appeal for a new trial after his public defender failed to file a memorandum supporting his claims.
Stanko is accused of killing Henry Lee Turner, 74, in April 2005. Investigators think Stanko shot Turner to death at his Conway home, and then stole his pickup truck.
Suspect Joshua Rounsoville is already serving a life sentence for shooting Zapareo Glover in Forsyth.
Opening statements are expected Monday in Stephen Stanko’s second trial. A judge ruled he was competent to stand trial last week.
Convicted killer Stephen Stanko will face an Horry County jury this week on charges he fatally shot a 74-year-old Conway man during a deadly rampage that sparked a nationwide manhunt and earned him a death sentence.
I presume Kathleen Noble's source for her letter (Nov. 4) is the study conducted by Naci Mocan, an economics professor, as reported in 2007 by Fox News.
The Santa Clarita Valley Young Democrats Club will present a death penalty forum from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at La Quinta Inn hotel located at 25201 The Old Road in Stevenson Ranch.
WARREN - Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins is scheduled to be in Columbus today, set to argue against any clemency for local death row inmate Kenneth Biros, scheduled to be executed Dec. 8. A recommendation either for or against clemency from the Ohio Parole Board that goes to Gov. Ted Strickland is expected within a day or two.
FARGO, N.D. — The brother of Philip M. Gattuso says he wants the death penalty on the table for the two Oklahoma men accused in the 49-year-old Fargo dentist’s death.For that to be possible, the criminal cases against Gattuso’s father-in-law, Gene Carl Kirkpatrick, and the handyman he’s accused of hiring to kill Gattuso, Michael Allen Nakvinda, would have to be tried in federal court because ...
Defense argues Va. moved too fast on death penalty Seven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington area to match the terrorist attacks of the year before.
