FLORIDA – Prison inmate who beat, killed his cellmate sentenced to death
A Santa Rosa Correctional Institution inmate who viciously beat and killed his cellmate in an apparent racial attack was sentenced to death Monday. Shawn Rogers, 37, will be placed on death row for the...
View ArticleMississippi Man Back on Death Row, Mental Evaluation Ordered
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the death sentence of an inmate convicted of killing a prison guard. Justices also ordered a state circuit court judge to hold...
View ArticleMilitary Court Dismisses Appeal Of Serial Killer On Death Row
December 12, 2017 Ronald A. Gray has lost another court battle aimed at stopping his execution. A military appeals court dismissed Gray’s request for extraordinary relief last month. Gray, a convicted...
View ArticleSerial killer : Anthony Allen Shore EXECUTED 01.18.2018 6.28 PM
UPDATE JANUARY 18 2018 In his final statement, Shore, 55, was apologetic and his voice cracked with emotion. “No amount of words or apology could ever undo what I’ve done,” Shore said. “I wish I could...
View ArticleFor first time in more than 30 years, no Harris County death row inmates...
December 6, 2017 For the first time since 1985, no Harris County killers will be executed by the state of Texas this year, a landmark shift for a county once known as the “capital of capital...
View ArticleConvicted killer Bessman Okafor to get new sentencing next year
December 6, 2017 ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A convicted killer sentenced to death row went before a judge Wednesday as he begins the process to get a new sentence Bessman Okafor killed Alex Zaldivar, 19,...
View ArticleAttorneys seek to ensure Scott Dozier won’t be executed until 2018
December 5, 2017 A judge in Las Vegas kept a condemned prison inmate’s execution on hold Tuesday over concerns about a never-before-tried three-drug combination planned for use during Nevada‘s first...
View ArticleSCOTUS rejects case of Alabama Death Row inmate who claims racial...
December 4, 2017 The U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling issued today, refused to hear the appeal of Alabama Death Row inmate Christopher Anthony Floyd, who says prosecutors struck 10 of 11 blacks from the...
View ArticleDeath row inmate Lotter’s attorneys ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case
December 1, 2017 A Nebraska death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take his case and review decisions by a federal district court and appellate court to deny his latest challenge to his...
View ArticleLayton lawmaker wants deeper look at Utah death penalty costs
November 27, 2017 A legislator is proposing an in-depth study of death penalty costs so the state will have unambiguous answers at hand as Utah’s capital punishment debate continues. A bill filed by...
View ArticleMissouri executes Roderick Nunley 9:09 p.m
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) – Missouri executed Tuesday evening Roderick Nunley for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989. Nunley was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m.,...
View ArticleA Second Jailhouse Snitch Claims a Secret Deal With Texas Prosecutor
Nearly six years before before Navarro County prosecutor John Jackson used a jailhouse snitch to help send Cameron Todd Willingham to his death, Jackson made similar use of an inmate informant in a...
View ArticleFlorida. death penalty faces scrutiny from Supreme Court
June 28, 2015 TAMPA — Thirteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, should decide death sentences, Florida stands alone in how its justice system imposes capital...
View ArticleMissouri executes Roderick Nunley 9:09 p.m
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) – Missouri executed Tuesday evening Roderick Nunley for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989. Nunley was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m.,...
View ArticleA Second Jailhouse Snitch Claims a Secret Deal With Texas Prosecutor
Nearly six years before before Navarro County prosecutor John Jackson used a jailhouse snitch to help send Cameron Todd Willingham to his death, Jackson made similar use of an inmate informant in a...
View ArticleFlorida. death penalty faces scrutiny from Supreme Court
June 28, 2015 TAMPA — Thirteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, should decide death sentences, Florida stands alone in how its justice system imposes capital...
View ArticleJury sentences man with history of mental illness to death for killing nurse...
April 15, 2014 A man with a history of mental illness has been sentenced to death by a jury for killing a South Dakota hospice nurse as part of a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama. James McVay...
View ArticleFLORIDA – Gonzalez death sentence upheld in Billings murders
April 11, 2014 The Florida Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction and death sentence for the man authorities said masterminded the robbery and killings of Byrd and Melanie Billings nearly five...
View ArticleMISSOURI :Death penalty hearing delayed: Murderer could die before sentence
April 9, 2014 A hearing to determine whether convicted murderer Gregory A. Bowman would once again face the death penalty has been delayed for a year because he has a terminal illness. Bowman, 62, is...
View ArticleOHIO – Man wrongfully sent to Death Row hopes court will reverse ruling –...
april 9, 2014 A Grove City man sentenced to death for a pair of Hocking County murders he did not commit is turning to the Ohio Supreme Court in his bid to be declared wrongfully imprisoned. Dale...
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