11656 Stories, most recent news story added 49 minutes ago
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.
Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of Walter Sartory, 73, a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The case against Casey Anthony is scheduled to be back in court next week after her lawyers filed several new motions.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state improperly adopted the same three-drug lethal injection protocol that was upheld in the nation's highest court and i...
Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say theyll seek the death penalty in the murder of a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
State prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Mesac Damas, the man charged with killing his wife and five children in their North Naples home in...
A date has been set for the possible death penalty trial of a Scioto County woman charged with killing three people in December 2008. Kara Garvin, 30, of 3407 Back Road, Franklin Furnace will go o...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A condemned Ohio man has asked a federal judge for an emergency order to stop next week's planned execution, arguing the state is rushing too fast to use its new, one-drug lethal injection process.
An Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged Wednesday with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said.
Lee Kershaw may face a lengthy prison term, but not the death penalty if convicted of the Nov. 21 slaying of Jon David, 43, of Mount Vernon, Ind.Posey County Prosecutor Jodi Uebelhack said the case does not meet the criteria for death penalty prosecution.Kershaw, 39, also of Mount Vernon, was returned to Posey County on Wednesday evening after being apprehended during the weekend in Acapulco ...
Lawyer David Dow was called before the state Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday to explain why he blew a court-imposed deadline by filing an appeal within 48 hours of his client's execution.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn’t matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.
After nearly 29 years on death row, Cecil C. Johnson, 53, was put to death by lethal injection early Wednesday in Tennessee. About an hour before he was pronounced dead at 1:34 a.m. (Tennessee time), Johnson’s case stirred up anew a running controversy within the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of long delays in carrying [...]
Governor Strickland has denied clemency for convicted killer Kenneth Biros. The Trumbull County man is scheduled to be executed next week. Biros was convicted of the brutal 1991 murder of Tami Engstrom. Biros will be the first person executed using Ohio's new lethal injection procedure.
A condemned 44-year-old inmate is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court keeps him from the Texas death chamber for the fatal slashing of an 11-year-old girl. HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A condemned 44-year-old inmate is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court keeps him from the Texas death chamber for the fatal slashing of an 11-year-old girl. Bobby Wayne Woods is set for lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville ...
The death warrant Muscogee Superior Court Judge Robert Johnston signed today schedules Gary’s death by lethal injection for Dec. 16 through Dec. 23, a time frame from which the Georgia Department of Corrections may choose a date.
