| Accused killer ruled sane and will stand trial for 2004 gallery owner ... http://www.heraldtribune.co... Death Penalty Articles Herald Tribune - The state is seeking the death penalty. But in interviews last year, Murphy said he did not think that would happen because he was godlike, psychologists reported. Murphy talked about aliens, said he had 1,000 followers under his control and told a ... |
| Student charged in death of baby http://www.courier-journal.... Death Penalty Articles Louisville Courier-Journal - Should some bloggers question their humanity when the first thing they can think to write is about the death penalty? The answer to the last question is a resounding "YES!"" I honestly am Democratic on many issues, but this sentiment is exactly what ... |
| Death Sentence Mulled in Baby Theft Case http://www.newsday.com/news... Death Penalty Articles Newsday - The death penalty is reserved for the worst crime," federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark told the jury. "This is the worst crime." Ketchmark argued that Montgomery had violated Stinnett in the "most wicked way possible," then failed to seek medical ... |
| Court blocks death penalty prosecutions in prison guard's murder http://www.lcsun-news.com/l... Death Penalty Articles Las Cruces Sun-News - SANTA FE — The state Supreme Court has put on hold the death penalty prosecutions of two prison inmates charged with killing a guard during a 1999 riot. The court ruled Thursday that the prosecutions could not move forward until additional money ... |
| Allegheny jury to continue death deliberations in trooper murder http://www.philly.com/phill... Death Penalty Articles Philadelphia Inquirer - PITTSBURGH - A sequestered Allegheny County jury will return to continue deliberating whether a Pittsburgh man should be sentenced to death for murdering a state trooper. The death penalty phase of 32-year-old Leslie Mollett's trial began Thursday ... |
| Man sentenced to life for acid attack http://www.suntimes.com/new... Death Penalty Articles Chicago Sun-Times - While Sharma said she was satisfied with the court's verdict, she wished the culprit had been given the death penalty. Yashpal can challenge the verdict in an appeals court. The court decision was welcomed by rights groups. ''We have been seeking the ... |
| Prosecutor argues for death penalty for convicted killer who cut baby ... http://www.wsfa.com/Global/... Death Penalty Articles WSFA - KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A jury in Missouri continues deliberations today to decide the fate of a woman convicted of murdering an expectant mother. Lisa Montgomery was found guilty on Monday of killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett in 2004 and cutting Stinnett's ... |
| Illinois death penalty trial delayed http://www.stltoday.com/stl... Death Penalty Articles St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Belleville — One of the first Metro East death penalty trials since former Gov. George Ryan's freeze will be delayed until next year. Jason D. Smith, accused of going on a murderous rampage in 2005 that left four dead in Belleville, will now face a ... |
| WOMB-RIPPER GUILTY http://www.nypost.com/seven... Death Penalty Articles New York Post - Today, prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Montgomery as the trial moves into its penalty phase. Prosecutors charged that Montgomery - unable to bear any more children after her tubal ligation in 1990 - needed a baby to back up her repeated ... |
| Woman guilty of stealing baby from womb http://www.telegraph.co.uk/... Death Penalty Articles Daily Telegraph - A woman who killed an expectant mother and grabbed the unborn child from her womb faces the death penalty after jurors rejected her insanity plea. Montgomery, left, faces the death penalty after being convicted of killing Mrs Stinnett Bobbie Jo ... |