Death Penalty Articles

Baltimore Sun - The family had consented to an agreement that would have allowed Miller to avoid the death penalty. Yesterday, Coffin said prosecutors could eventually decide to seek the death penalty again. Shen, an honor student, tennis champion and prom queen, was ...

McKinney Courier-Gazette - The players who successfully pursued the death penalty for Kosoul Chanthakoummane: Assistant prosecutor Curtis Howard (from left) lead prosecutor Greg Davis, Joe Walker (who wanted Chanthakoummane to receive a life sentence), Jackie Mull and her ...

WRAL - Raleigh — Wake County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Raleigh man accused in the stabbing death of his girlfriend. Mwanza Rama Bennett, 25, faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Lorrielle Watkins, 25. She was found ...

Associated Press - Smith's first death sentence was thrown out because of a change in Arizona's death penalty statutes. A federal appeals court tossed out second sentence after finding that his lawyers did a poor job at the second sentencing proceeding. In 2004, an ...

WRAL - The sentence comes as questions about North Carolina's death penalty have put executions on hold. In August, Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled that the North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority when it adopted a policy that ...

Chicago Tribune - WASHINGTON - By his own admission, the crime was savage. Jose Medellin and five other gang members were drinking, brawling, swaggering, talking smack and hanging out by the railroad tracks near a Houston apartment complex on a warm night in June 1993 ...

Montgomery Advertiser - We should never make the death penalty illegal. It should be executed speedily after a fair trial, without delay. "Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil ...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram - The man sentenced to death in one of Arlington's notorious "bathtub slayings" is the latest to get a reprieve from the death penalty since the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a case challenging lethal injection, court records show. Dale ...

Washington Post - Since almost all executions are carried out by lethal injection, he said a halt "would mean the most profound hiatus in the operation of the death penalty in at least two decades." The justices review applications for stays on a case-by-case basis ...

Reuters - So far this year, 42 people have been executed in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Last year, there were 53 executions. All but one of the 38 U.S. states with the death penalty and the federal government use lethal ...