Court Throws Out Death Penalty for Slayer of Three
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children around the holidays in 2006. Justices on Thursday upheld James Aaron Miller’s murder conviction but ordered that he be resentenced. Miller was convicted of killing Bridgette Barr, 5-year-old Sydney Barr and [...]
Indiana Executes First Man Since 2007
An Indiana man that refused clemency was executed for the murder of estranged wife and two relatives in 1994. A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Corrections says that forty-nine-year-old Matthew Eric Wrinkles died from a lethal injection at 12:39 a.m. on Friday. Authorities say that Wrinkles was on methamphetamine when he burst into his [...]
Casey Anthony Lawyers Try to Block Death Penalty
Attorneys for a Florida mother who was charged with killing her two-year-old daughter will ask a judge to halt prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Casey Anthony’s case has a hearing scheduled for Friday morning. Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee’s body was found six months [...]
Missouri Court Overturns Death Sentence for 2002 Murder
The Supreme Court of Missouri has overturned the death sentence for a southeast Missouri man because his attorney did not question the character of a murder victim who had child pornography on his computer. The court unanimously acknowledged in a ruling on Tuesday that character evidence for murder victims is typically barred. Relatives of the [...]
Ohio Murderer Appeals Execution
A condemned murderer is scheduled to be the first person in the United States to be executed with a single drug – he has asked a federal appeals court to delay his execution. Kenneth Biros was sentenced to death for having killed and dismembered a woman he met in a bar in 1991. His execution [...]
Jury Considers Death Penalty in TV Anchorwoman Case
The jury that convicted a man of capital murder in the beating death of an Arkansas television anchorwoman is now considering whether to impose the death penalty. Jurors will be meeting on Thursday, one day after having convicted Curtis Lavelle Vance of murder, rape, and several other charges. Jurors could also recommend life in prison [...]
Ohio Fails to Find Doctors to Provide Execution Advice
The state of Ohio is having a difficult time finding medical professionals who will provide advice on how to put condemned inmates to death. Richard Cordray, Attorney General, said in a court filing that professional and ethical considerations have stopped doctors from giving advice on lethal injection procedure. The executions pending in Ohio have been [...]
Ga. Executes Man for Store Manager Killing
The man who shot and killed a pizza store manager during a robbery in 1994 has been executed by lethal injection. Mark Howard McClain was executed on Tuesday at a state prison roughly fifty miles south of Atlanta, Georgia, after he exhausted his appeals and his bid for clemency was rejected. He was pronounced dead [...]
Court Examines Ohio’s Injection Procedures
The failed execution of the Ohio inmate has caused a tremendous stir in the nation’s justice and corrections system – his execution was halted after technicians spent two hours trying to find a usable vein. This unprecedented failure has spurred a court in Ohio to examine the injection procedures used, and Governer Ted Strickland has [...]
9/11 Mastermind to Face Public Trial
Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
On Friday, November 13, 2009, United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that the government would prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack, and four others in a civilian courthouse just blocks away from the scene of their alleged crimes. In a statement, Holder said [...]
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