A prosecutor who was earlier exonerated in a legal ethics case concerning his possible personal relationship with a South Florida judge around the time he presented a death-penalty case in…
After growing up during the Great Depression, William Bennett dropped out of law school to serve as a bomber pilot in World War II, flying 35 missions over Nazi-occupied Europe…
In what the attorney general of Texas is describing as a “legally baseless” act of “unabashed judicial activism,” a state trial-court judge has granted a pretrial defense motion that the…
It isn’t just in Texas that a judge is accused of having presided over a capital murder trial while simultaneously having an inappropriate relationship with the prosecutor.
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…
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