| Defense attorneys seek to bar death penalty for Dimas-Martinez http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr... Death Penalty Articles Northwest Arkansas News - BENTONVILLE - Defense attorneys claim their client Erickson Dimas-Martinez has an intellectual disability that bars prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Dimas-Martinez, 22, is charged with aggravated robbery and capital murder, both class Y ... |
| Unabomber’s brother to speak http://www.pressconnects.co... Death Penalty Articles Sun and Press - David Kaczynski, brother of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, will speak at a talk on “The Death Penalty in Black and White” at 5 p.m. Oct. 31 in University Union room 133 at Binghamton University. David Kaczynski, who is the director of New Yorkers ... |
| Fetus theft adds to Mo. town's notoriety http://www.boston.com/news/... Death Penalty Articles Boston Globe - Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if she is convicted. Beyond the Stinnett case, Skidmore has experienced other mysterious tragedies, some of which remain unsolved. First was the death of Ken Rex McElroy, also known as the Skidmore Bully |
| Trying to Decipher the State of the Death Penalty http://www.nytimes.com/2007... Death Penalty Articles New York Times - The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court to ... |
| S.J. police find man accused of 1983 rape-murder of Campbell teen http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-b... Death Penalty Articles San Francisco Gate - Holland was charged Tuesday with murder and the special circumstance that the killing happened during a rape, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted. Prosecutors have not determined if they will seek the death penalty. E-mail John ... |
| North Carolina Medical Board heads back to court on executions http://www.chron.com/disp/s... Death Penalty Articles Houston Chronicle - The board's policy effectively triggered a moratorium on the state's death penalty. North Carolina has not executed a condemned inmate since August 2006. The ruling issued last month by Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens said executions are not ... |
| Watch this http://media.guardian.co.uk... Death Penalty Articles Media Guardian - As the extent of China's disregard for human rights - chief among them its cavalier use of the death penalty and disregard for things like democracy - is hardly unreported, this strand should be renamed Indifferent World since, in common with many of ... |
| St. Louis prosecutor to seek the death penalty against Gregory Bowman http://www.bnd.com/breaking... Death Penalty Articles News-Democrat - St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch will seek the death penalty for Gregory Bowman, who was once convicted of killing two young Belleville women, if he is convicted of killing a teenager in Missouri. "The motion was filed today. We intend to ... |
| U.S. Appeals Court reviewing murderer's case http://www.detnews.com/apps... Death Penalty Articles Detroit News - As a Grand Rapids jury weighed the death penalty for convicted murderer Marvin Gabrion, Gabrion sucker-punched his lawyer in front of the men and women who would decide his fate, knocking him to the floor. The bizarre incident sheds light on Gabrion ... |
| Barack Obama: Making his mark http://www.dailysouthtown.c... Death Penalty Articles Daily Southtown - It was a Wednesday night ritual for Barack Obama: After a day of debating taxes, the death penalty or some other divisive issue, he'd head to a meeting of "The Committee." Lawmakers and lobbyists, Democrats and Republicans alike, would put politics ... |