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OKLAHOMA CITY -- One Oklahoma lawmaker is renewing the effort to repeal the death penalty in our state. For state Senator Constance Johnson, (D) Oklahoma County, the debate over capital punishment is less about morals, and more about money.
HUNTSVILLE — The State of Texas has reimbursed Walker County 100 percent of legal costs the county has paid so far to cover the cost of the capital murder trial of Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate Jerry Duane Martin.
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ATLANTA — After hearing about seven hours of testimony Monday in the case of condemned Columbus Stocking Strangler Carlton Gary, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles continued its deliberations into the night while communicating with one board member who was hospitalized that morning.
No matter how an execution is done, whether with one drug or a cocktail of three, for Ohio to put someone to death is inherently barbaric.
The Salt Lake District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty if Donald Eugene Younge is convicted of the stabbing...
Sen. Connie Johnson said she will spend the next four years working to get support for abolishing the death penalty before eventually filing legislation. Johnson, D-Oklahoma City, and members of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty said they will organize grassroots support. Death penalty cases cost the state more money more than non-death penalty cases, Johnson said."It’s time to ...
A state senator from Oklahoma City said she's renewing her efforts to abolish the death penalty in Oklahoma.
On Monday, Jeff Benton sat in a crowded Riverside courtroom as two juries convicted two men in the 2002 murder of Stephanie Ann Benton, his 18-year-old daughter. Jeffree Jay Buettner,33, and Glen Joseph Jones, 26, were found guilty of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of the 18-year-old El Cajon woman in Lake Elsinore in southwest Riverside County. Her body was left stuffed into a ...
Almost two weeks ago, I was officially connected to a man's killing.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty if Donald Eugene Younge is...
New York - The self-proclaimed al-Qaeda mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attacks will be heading back to the scene of the c...
There's little middle ground to be found in North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, which allows defense attorneys to use racial bias as an argument against the pursuit and imposition of the death penalty. Jim O'Neill, Forsyth County's new district attorney, supports the death penalty and says that its use has been "racially neutral" in the 13 years he has worked in the office. But, setting a new ...
Several Columbus attorneys say if evidence that could be subjected to DNA testing in the “Stocking Stranger” cases exists, the test should be conducted before convicted killer Carlton Gary is executed.
While revelations concerning the role that American conservatives played in spawning Uganda’s “anti-homosexuality bill” have focused largely on Rick Warren, the pastor at California’s Saddleback Church, and groups that offer a purported cures for homosexuality, many US right-wing organizations are promoting their ideology in Uganda and across Africa.
Secretary of State Clinton on Monday called gay rights the "new frontier" in the U.S. push for worldwide democracy and human rights.
