Death Penalty
- Utah Officials OK Execution by Firing Squad
Feb 10, 2012, 03:08 pm CST
- Supreme Court Declines to Lift Execution Stay Obtained by Ohio Inmate
Feb 9, 2012, 02:11 pm CST
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Christina Swarns Talks Race and Gender in Capital Defense Work
Feb 2, 2012, 10:25 am CST
- Former Death Row Inmate Charged with Threatening Judge Who Once Prosecuted Him
Jan 26, 2012, 04:13 pm CST
- Death Row Inmate Taunts Community in Letter to Hometown Newspaper
Jan 26, 2012, 01:40 pm CST
- Supreme Court Rules for Death-Row Inmate Whose BigLaw Lawyers Missed the Appeal Deadline
Jan 18, 2012, 10:05 am CST
- Journalism & Justice: Did Innocence Project Student Reporters Get Too Close to Lawyers?
Jan 1, 2012, 05:10 am CST
- Another Feared Victim of Serial Killer John Gacy Is Found Alive and Well Decades Later
Dec 21, 2011, 04:16 pm CST
- Judge Issues Tentative Decision Tossing California Lethal Injection Procedure
Dec 16, 2011, 07:57 am CST
- Fewer than 100 Death Sentences Imposed in 2011; Is ‘Growing Discomfort’ the Reason?
Dec 15, 2011, 08:05 am CST
- Conn. Home Invasion Killer of Three Is Sentenced to Death
Dec 12, 2011, 05:49 pm CST
- Convicted Murder Defendant Sentenced to Death Gets New Trial over Juror’s Tweets
Dec 8, 2011, 04:18 pm CST
- Mercer U Law Grad McDaniels Faces Death Penalty If Convicted in Slaying of Classmate Lauren Giddings
Dec 8, 2011, 03:46 pm CST
- Swiss Drug Maker Wants No Part of Nebraska’s Lethal Injection Regime
Nov 30, 2011, 02:09 pm CST
- Ore. Governor Halts Executions; Death Row Inmate Likely Disappointed, Lawyer Says
Nov 23, 2011, 06:34 am CST
- New Trial Sought for Death Row Inmate over Jurors’ Tweeting and Napping
Nov 18, 2011, 09:30 am CST
- Triple-Murderer Oba Chandler Executed in Fla., 22 Years After ‘Angels & Demons’ Slayings
Nov 15, 2011, 04:46 pm CST
- Prosecutors, Defense Lawyer in Oba Chandler ‘Angels & Demons’ Murder Case Plan to Witness Execution
Nov 14, 2011, 01:53 pm CST
- Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence in Summary Reversal of 6th Circuit
Nov 7, 2011, 12:41 pm CST
- Supreme Court Denies Cert in Capital Case with ‘Racial Overtones’; Dueling Opinions Issued
Nov 7, 2011, 12:02 pm CST
- Inmate Seeking Execution Says He Wants to Kill Again; Judge Mulls Aggravation Arguments
Oct 26, 2011, 05:29 pm CST
- Mistakes by Defense Lawyers Led to Reversals or Remands in Nearly a Third of Pa. Capital Cases
Oct 24, 2011, 10:00 am CST
- Appeals Court Blocks Surrender of RI Defendant to Federal Authorities
Oct 14, 2011, 01:31 pm CST
- Florida Lawmaker Wants to Bring Back Firing Squads, Electric Chair
Oct 14, 2011, 12:40 pm CST
- Most Americans Still Support the Death Penalty, But the Percentage Is Declining
Oct 14, 2011, 04:30 am CST
- Justices Sympathetic to Inmate Whose BigLaw Counsel Didn’t Open Mail, Missed Capital Appeal Deadline
Oct 4, 2011, 04:40 pm CST
- Inmate Convicted in Courthouse Slayings Sues, Says Ohio Won’t Provide Halal Meals to Muslims
Oct 3, 2011, 11:54 am CST
- The Confession: Excerpt from John Grisham’s Winning Entry for Harper Lee Prize
Oct 1, 2011, 04:00 am CST
- Lawyers on the Docket: Court Term Kicks Off with a Look at Legal Representation
Oct 1, 2011, 02:30 am CST
- Represented by Top BigLaw Counsel, Inmate Facing Death Sentence Hopes to Be Allowed to Appeal
Sep 30, 2011, 09:13 am CST
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