Appeals court considers woman’s challenge to life sentence

CINCINNATI (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16 are asking federal appellate judges to throw out her sentence, in a case that has attracted celebrity attention. Cyntoia Brown’s attorneys will argue Thursday before a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel. The U.S.... Read More

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Cyntoia Brown

June 14, 2018

Parole board to hear former juror’s death sentence regrets

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Parole Board on Thursday planned to hear from a juror who recommended that a convicted killer be sentenced to death, but now believes he should be spared. At issue is the case of death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts, who is set to die in October for killing Fred Hicks... Read More

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Raymond Tibbetts

June 12, 2018

Arkansas judge seeks to dismiss complaint over demonstration

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge charged with breaking judicial ethics rules for participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration the same day he blocked the state from using an execution drug said Monday that a disciplinary panel should dismiss its case against him. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen’s attorneys renewed their May... Read More

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Death Penalty

June 4, 2018

Alabama death row inmate found dead inside cell

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an Alabama death row inmate was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide Sunday morning. The Alabama Department of Corrections said 57-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Borden was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a security check at 2:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at... Read More

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Jeffrey Lynn Borden

May 31, 2018

Alabama ordered to release details on lethal injection

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials were ordered to release information about the state’s lethal injection procedure as a federal judge granted news organizations’ request to unseal records in the wake of an aborted execution. U.S. Judge Karon O. Bowdre ruled Wednesday that the public has a “common law right of access to the sealed... Read More

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May 24, 2018

Condemned Ohio man blames killing on ‘homosexual panic’

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned killer is asking the Ohio Parole Board for mercy, saying he experienced a “homosexual panic” of self-revulsion before killing a man he picked up at a bar more than 30 years ago. Death row inmate Robert Van Hook was sentenced to die for fatally strangling and stabbing David Self... Read More

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Robert Van Hook

May 16, 2018

Inmate to be executed for San Antonio lovers’ lane killing

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening has insisted he wasn’t involved in a San Antonio “lovers’ lane” killing more than 14 years ago that sent him to death row. Juan Edward Castillo was condemned for the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in a robbery plot that testimony... Read More

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Juan Edward Castillo

May 7, 2018

Georgia executes killer of off-duty prison guard

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia inmate executed for a 1996 shotgun slaying twitched briefly as the lethal injection flowed into his body and groaned, “It burns, man.” Robert Earl Butts Jr., 40, was declared dead by a prison warden at 9:58 p.m. Friday after the compounded barbiturate pentobarbital was injected into his body. Prison... Read More

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Robert Butts Jr.

May 3, 2018

Board grants stay of execution for condemned Georgia inmate

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s parole board on Wednesday issued a decision halting the scheduled execution of a condemned inmate less than 24 hours before he was set to be put to death. Robert Earl Butts Jr., 40, had been scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Jackson. The State Board... Read More

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Robert Butts Jr.

April 26, 2018

Texas gang member executed for killing girl, grandmother

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A prisoner on Texas death row for killing a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting at a child’s birthday party in Fort Worth a decade ago was executed Wednesday evening. Erick Davila received lethal injection for using a laser-sighted semi-automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people... Read More

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Erick Davila

April 26, 2018

Man in US illegally who killed deputies sentenced to death

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man living in the U.S. illegally has been sentenced to the death penalty for the 2014 killing of a Northern California sheriff’s deputy and a detective. The Sacramento Bee reports Luis Bracamontes smiled during Wednesday’s sentencing and was eventually tossed out of the court room for yelling. He was previously... Read More

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Luis Bracamontes

April 20, 2018

California inmate released after 25 years on death row

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — A man who spent nearly 25 years on California’s death row was freed Thursday after his conviction in the rape and killing of his girlfriend’s nearly 2-year-old daughter was overturned. Vicente Benavides, 68, was released from San Quentin State Prison following a judge’s order, according to the California Department of... Read More

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Vincente Benavides

April 20, 2018

Alabama mail-bomber the oldest executed in US modern times

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of sending mail bombs during a wave of Southern terror has been executed for killing a federal judge, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times. Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m. following an injection at the... Read More

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Leroy Moody, Walter Leroy Moody Jr.

Appeals court considers woman’s challenge to life sentence

Parole board to hear former juror’s death sentence regrets

Arkansas judge seeks to dismiss complaint over demonstration

Alabama death row inmate found dead inside cell

Alabama ordered to release details on lethal injection

Condemned Ohio man blames killing on ‘homosexual panic’

Inmate to be executed for San Antonio lovers’ lane killing

Nevada court OKs execution, rejects challenges on procedure

Georgia executes killer of off-duty prison guard

Board grants stay of execution for condemned Georgia inmate

Texas gang member executed for killing girl, grandmother

Man in US illegally who killed deputies sentenced to death

California inmate released after 25 years on death row

Alabama mail-bomber the oldest executed in US modern times

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