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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
Taylor Marks was indicted on a charge of aggravated murder with an additional charge of murder for hire, which makes it a death penalty case. The man accused carrying out the killing, Troy A. Purdie, 19, of Akron, faces the same death penalty charges.
Death penalty sought against daughter in mother's murder
Judges have rejected defendants' requests to delay murder cases to examine whether they face the death penalty because of their skin color.
A DuPage County jury is expected to begin its deliberations Tuesday on whether Brian Dugan should be put to death for the 1983 rape and murder of Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville. DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett and Assistant State's Attorney Michael Wolfe will argue that the death penalty is appropriate for few people more clearly than Dugan, 53, who pleaded guilty to the crime in July ...
The husband of one of victims killed in the DC sniper shootings tells News10 that he wants to be there when John Allen Muhammad is executed by lethal injection.
Two men accused in unrelated murders will not face the death penalty when tried, a prosecutor said today.
There was closure Monday night for some Atlanta friends of a package store employee who was gunned down seven years ago. The case was linked to John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday for his role in the sniper shootings in the Washington DC area.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the husband and co-worker of a Fort Bragg soldier slain last year.
Muhammad jury foreman: "We believed in our hearts he'd do it again. We felt that was enough to say if anybody deserved the death penalty, he did."
Opening statements are scheduled Monday in central Pennsylvania in the capital murder trial of a man accused of beating the 2-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend to death with a video...
The Institute for Peace Studies at Rocky Mountain College says that Marietta Jaeger Lane will be recognized for her work against the death penalty.
A man already on South Carolina’s death row for killing his girlfriend is going on trial again in another death penalty case. Jury selection began Monday in Stephen Stanko’s second trial. A judge ruled he was competent to stand trial last week. Opening statements are expected in a few days.
The death penalty murder trial of Kevin Isom of Gary, charged with killing his wife and two stepchildren, has been scheduled to begin Feb. 22. Lake Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr., who last month approved the expenditure of county funds to hire a mitigation expert, directed defense attorneys Nick Thiros and Alison Benjamin to have the expert hired and in court on Dec. 8 to discuss ...
BOZEMAN - The Institute for Peace Studies at Rocky Mountain College says Marietta Jaeger Lane of Three Forks will receive this year's Jeannette Rankin Peace Award for her work against the death penalty.
In the long, heated debate about capital punishment, we go round and round about justice or revenge, as if the two ideas operate independently of one another. We talk about innocent people being sent to death, and the racial disparity among death row inmates. We talk about crimes so heinous they cry out for the ultimate punishment.
