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…
Three men convicted in a controversial Arkansas child-murder case were released from prison today after taking Alford pleas during a court hearing in Jonesboro.
Lawyers for the man accused of killing a federal judge in an Arizona shooting spree are apparently trying to show that mental illness runs in the suspect’s family.
A camera will record the execution of a Georgia inmate tonight due to a request by a death-row lawyer hoping it will provide evidence that a sedative used in animal…
Many legal bloggers took time this week to post on the wind-up, verdict and aftermath of Casey Anthony’s murder trial. Many expressed a degree of satisfaction that the tone of…
Officials have recalculated the amount of time Casey Anthony must serve in jail, after being convicted of four counts of providing false information in the investigation into her missing 2-year-old…
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