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TEXAS -SUZANNE BASSO EXECUTION SET FEB. 5, 2014
HOUSTON (July 24, 2013)–State District Judge Mary Lou Keel has set a Feb. 5, 2014 execution date for Suzanne Basso, 59, who’s held on women’s death row in Gatesville. Basso was convicted of capital...
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Only Inmate to Receive Federal Death Penalty in New York Again Sentenced to...
July 24, 2013 Ronell Wilson, whose first death sentence for killing two undercover police detectives was overturned, was sentenced again on Wednesday to die by a federal jury that heard gripping...
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Alabama executes Andrew Lacke
ATMORE, Alabama – Andrew Lackey was executed by lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility Thursday evening for the 2005 murder of an 80-year-old World War II veteran he was trying to rob. Lackey...
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Portugal speaks out against 500th execution in Texas
Portugal has said it “profoundly laments” the execution of a female death row prisoner in Texas, who became the 500th inmate to be executed in that American State. In a statement published on its...
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FLORIDA – Opening statements begin in death penalty case resentencing –...
february 26, 2014 (tampabay) LARGO — A jury has been selected and opening statements are scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the resentencing of Richard Michael Cooper, who has been on death row...
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TEXAS -Brandon Daniel transferred to Death Row
March 11, 2014 AUSTIN — A week to the day that a jury sentenced Brandon Daniel to death by lethal injection for the April 2012 killing of Senior Austin Police Officer Jaime Padron, officials...
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2 Oklahoma death row inmates seek stay for appeal
march 11, 2014 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers for two Oklahoma death row inmates on Tuesday asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a stay of execution while their lawsuit makes its way through state court....
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Suspect Found Guilty In Boy’s Fatal Beating Sentenced To Death Penalty –...
march 14, 2014 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The man found guilty in the fatal beating of a boy in Fayette County has now been sentenced to the death penalty. The jury recommended that Patrick Haney should...
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SOUTH CAROLINA – Ricky Blackwell sentenced to death
march 17, 2014 SPARTANBURG, S.C. —After hours of deliberation a Spartanburg County jury issued the death sentence for Ricky Blackwell. A short time later the judge confirmed the death sentence for the...
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TENNESSEE- Execution date set for inmate on death row since 1978 – Donald Wayne
april 9, 2014 Tennessee wants to execute death row’s longest-standing resident. Donald Wayne Strouth, 55, has been on death row since 1978 for the murder of a second-hand store owner in Kingsport. He’s...
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OHIO – 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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MISSOURI :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...
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FLORIDA – 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...
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Jury 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...
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Florida. 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...
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A 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...
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Missouri 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.,...
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Florida. 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...
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A 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...
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Missouri 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.,...
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