When Cory R. Maples heard that he was going to be represented in his murder appeal by lawyers from one of New York’s most prestigious law firms, “I thought I…
Exercising its extraordinary jurisdictional powers, as it was urged to do in a petition by a nonprofit Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday appointed a judge…
A Georgia death-row inmate who asserted actual innocence in failed appeals made the same claim as he lay strapped to a lethal-injection gurney before his execution late Wednesday.
The scheduled 7 p.m. execution of Troy Davis has been temporarily postponed, as the U.S. Supreme Court mulls arguments by both sides in a last-minute appeal, reports Sep 22, 2011 12:15 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court granted two stays of execution involving Texas cases this week, the most recent one involving an Army recruiter convicted of raping and murdering a woman he…
Updated: Death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis is set to be executed on Wednesday after the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole denied his bid for clemency.
Updated: It appears that a controversial Texas execution, in a capital murder case in which the factual guilt of the defendant is not disputed but his sentencing was clearly tainted…
An unemployed immigration attorney living with his parents in the Pittsburgh suburbs apparently snapped in April 2000, shooting six people he reportedly targeted because of their racial, ethnic or religious…
The lawyer representing a defendant set to go on trial in September for a Connecticut triple murder is displaying the aggressive tactics that earned the one-time prosecutor a reputation as…
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