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Death penalty opponents will gather at Evansville's Holy Redeemer Catholic Church at 8 p.m. Thursday for a prayer vigil that will continue through the night.The event is being held in response to the pending execution of Eric Wrinkles, who is set to die by lethal injection before dawn Friday. Wrinkles is on death row at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He was convicted of the 1994 ...
The capital murder trial of Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate Jerry Duane Martin continues at 9 a.m. Monday, with attorneys expected to offer closing statements in the punishment phase of the trial.
Stephanie Gray, a Canadian anti-abortion activist, has been touring American and Canadian college campuses with a rather chilling message: Legalized abortion isn't merely a grievous...
Eight store cameras capture an uncommonly detailed account of two people being killed.
Not since the 19th century has a Rock Island County jurysentenced someone to death and had its will carried out.
Several hundred people rallied in the rain near Manhattan's federal courthouse complex Saturday to protest the plan to put major terrorism suspects on trial in New York City. Demonstrators at the Saturday event included the actor Brian Dennehy and a number of people who lost friends and relatives in the 9/11 attacks. Anger at the Obama administration ran hot in the crowd. One person held up a ...
Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- An Orlando man has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling his girlfriend and burning her body on the side of a road in central Florida.
Associated Press - December 5, 2009 6:54 PM ET BENTON, Ill. (AP) - Franklin County state's attorney Tom Dinn says he plans to seek the death penalty against 1 of 2 suspects in a double killing...
The state said it would not appeal a ruling that found that the state must hold the hearings and take public input on the injection technique.
Testimony began Saturday at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in the capital murder trial of Tyrone Wells, who is accused of stabbing restaurant owner Jose Vazquez, 37, to death in 2003 during an armed robbery at the victim's business.
The judge in the Shannon Flowers murder case in Huron decided to delay his rulings on most of the four prosecution and defense motions during a hearing Monday morning.
Attorneys for Cecil Johnson and his widow say he was religiously opposed to his body being cut in any way after his death, and they filed a suit to block the autopsy after his execution.
Kentucky will not appeal a state Supreme Court ruling striking down its lethal injection protocol in favor of public hearings on the injection process.
The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war. Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug. Biros argues that it is cruel and unusual for the state to subject him to a ...
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - A trial date has been set for a Northern California woman charged with killing an 8-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase.San Joaquin County Judge Linda Lofthus on Friday said Melissa Huckaby's murder trial would...
