A federal judge in California with experience in death-penalty trials has been tapped to preside over the trial of the suspect in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting spree that left six…
The top criminal court in Texas has ruled that a trial judge may not hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty when a capital murder defendant has…
The state senate of Illinois today approved a proposed ban on capital punishment by a 32-25 vote, sending the bill, which was previously passed by the state house of representatives,…
Updated: The federal public defender who represented Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will reportedly defend the suspect charged Sunday in the shooting spree at a Safeway grocery…
A neo-Nazi defendant with facial tattoos that many might find disturbing covered them up during his Florida murder trial, with the help of a cosmetologist paid over $100 a day…
Texas’ highest criminal court has temporarily halted a hearing on the constitutionality of capital punishment overseen by a Houston judge who issued then rescinded a decision striking down the state’s…
Among the thousands of contraband cell phones confiscated from California prison inmates in recent years was one found under the mattress of Charles Manson, the notorious architect of the 1969…
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