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…
A convicted murderer who argues Alabama law didn’t allow his death sentence will get a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on whether his appeal was filed too late.
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and restored the death penalty for a man convicted of the…
Baltimore lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon says he had a special bond with convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, and he plans to write a book about his onetime client.
A jury in an Arkansas capital case today found defendant Curtis Lavelle Vance guilty in the 2008 rape-murder of a well-known television personality, anchorwoman Anne Pressly of KATV.
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