The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has reversed the death sentence for a convicted double murderer who was nearly executed in 2008 before the state Feb 24, 2010 6:16 PM CST
Perhaps there are legitimate reasons for displaying iconic items used in horrific crimes, such as the tan Volkswagen Beetle in which notorious serial killer Ted Bundy reportedly abducted a number…
Saying that a special master who evaluated the evidence in an ethics case against the top criminal judge in Texas missed the point, prosecutors in the ethics case are seeking…
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a death sentence for Frank Spisak, an Ohio neo-Nazi convicted of three murders after an unusual defense by his lawyer.
Four hours before a convicted murderer was scheduled to be put to death today, the Georgia Supreme Court halted the execution and ordered a trial judge to consider Carlton Gary’s…
After apologizing for murdering a 22-year-old woman in 1991, a death row inmate was executed in Ohio today in a historic one-drug lethal injection that the director of state prisons…
The chief judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals faced mounting criticism and ethics charges over her refusal to accept a late emergency death-penalty appeal…
A death row inmate deserves a new sentencing hearing because his trial lawyer ignored the victim’s apparent penchant for child pornography, according to the Missouri Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Korean War veteran on death row deserves a new sentencing hearing because his lawyer did not introduce evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder.
A death-penalty lawyer on Casey Anthony’s defense team had some candid comments about death penalty closing arguments in an Orlando appearance last year.
Lawyer Andrea Lyon talked about pro death-penalty…
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