Denied entry to the bar for years because of his handling of his personal finances and criticized by observers for taking a risky trial strategy in his first death-penalty defense,…
After deliberating for 10 hours, a Florida jury has reached a verdict in the first-degree murder case of Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in…
A lawyer is raising questions about an animal sedative used as a replacement drug in lethal injections after his client’s execution went awry on Thursday night.
A Florida judge has struck down Florida’s death penalty procedure in which jurors make a capital sentencing recommendation without clear factual findings on aggravating factors.
In the more than 30 years since the death penalty was reinstated in California, it has cost the public about $308 million per execution on the 13 occasions it was…
A visibly irked judge in a high-profile Orlando, Fla., murder trial warned lawyers for both sides that he will consider possible legal ethics sanctions once the case concludes if their…
Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez is taking some hits from legal analysts analyzing the legal play-by-play of the murder trial unfolding in a Florida courtroom.
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