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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.
by Chris McGreal Texas has executed a child killer at the centre of a bitter dispute over what defines legal mental impairment after several courts ruled that he could be put to death despite a low IQ. Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, was killed by lethal injection for raping and murdering his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter after the US supreme court denied a last minute appeal by lawyers who argued ...
VISTA ---- After six days of deliberations, jurors on Thursdayagain went home without deciding whether to recommend the deathpenalty for Derlyn Ray Threats.
Texas has executed a 44-year-old man for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.
A 63-year-old Mesa man has been sentenced to death in the 2006 slaying of his girlfriend with a butcher knife.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A 44-year-old man was executed Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.
Casey Anthony's defense lawyers have filed a motion arguing that Florida's death penalty procedure is unconstitutional.
DEATH ROW INMATE ASKS JUDGE TO STOP EXECUTION: COLUMBUS (AP) - A man sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a woman, then scattering her body parts has asked a federal judge for an emergency order to stop his Tuesday execution. Kenneth Biros asked U.S.
Police say the couple's 3-year-old son was in the apartment at the time of the slaying.
Legal experts say Obama was overly confident when he said that critics of the New York trial would be silenced 'when the death penalty is applied to' suspect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. After Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 because one juror in Virginia refused to agree to the death penalty, Moussaoui clapped his ...
Casey Anthony's defense team filed nearly a dozen motions on Monday, including one that challenged the state's death penalty.
Casey Anthonys defense attorneys filed a motion last week claiming the death penalty is unconstitutional and should be dropped from the case. READ: Numerous Motions Filed By Defense SHEAFFER BLOGS: Read Legal Expert's Posts FOLLOW US! Casey Coverage On Twitter
Henry Lee Stringer, Auburn, is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Marvelette Strickland, 29, their children J’Majuan Stringer, 4, and J’Lasia Stringer, 2, and Marvelette’s mother, Evelyn Strickland, 68.
By TODD RUGER Michael King is sentenced to death for the murder of Denise Amber Lee.
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.
Casey Anthony's defense team files several motions, including one arguing that the death penalty procedure is unconstitutional.
