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DEATH-PENALTY, EXECUTIONS
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| Thursday, 21-Aug-2008 17:11 EDT |
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Death-Row Inmate Medellin Doesn't Get a Reprieve From Texas Pardons Board
Aug. 5--AUSTIN -- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted Monday against a reprieve for Jose Medellin, whose scheduled execution today has frayed relations with Mexico and the International Court of Justice.
Ohio inmate says he's too fat to execute
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Attorneys for an Ohio death row prison inmate say Richard Wade Cooey is too fat to be executed constitutionally.
Texas governor asked to halt execution
DALLAS, July 28 (UPI) -- Defense attorneys say efforts are continuing to delay next week's scheduled execution in Texas of Mexican national Jose Medellin.
Report: Death Row Records sold for $24M
LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) -- The financially strapped Los Angeles record label where hip-hop icons Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre became stars has been auctioned off for $24 million.
Missouri May Seek Death Penalty Against Sheley
Jul. 2--Missouri law enforcement officials have begun discussing whether to seek the death penalty for Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, who was captured Tuesday night outside a Granite City bar after the FBI linked him to eight killings.
Missouri Likely to Seek Death for Sheley
Jul. 3--Missouri law enforcement officials have begun discussing whether to seek the death penalty for Nicholas T. Sheley, who was captured Tuesday night outside a Granite City bar after the FBI linked him to eight killings in Missouri and Northern Illinois.
Precedent overlooked in child-rape ruling
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices overlooked the new military justice code when they declared there were few precedents for executing child rapists, observers say.
McCain criticizes high court's rape ruling
INDIANAPOLIS, July 1 (UPI) -- John McCain, the likely GOP presidential candidate, criticized the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday for overturning the death penalty for a child rapist.
Japanese serial killer executed
TOKYO, June 17 (UPI) -- A 45-year-old Japanese man convicted of killing four young girls was one of three death row inmates hanged Tuesday, the Japanese justice ministry said.
Afghan reporter appeals death sentence
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 19 (UPI) -- An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for downloading and distributing an article questioning Islam says his confession was extracted by torture.
Court lets prosecutor remain on `Alpha Dog' case
SAN FRANCISCO - California's highest court ruled that a prosecutor who helped in the making of "Alpha Dog" may remain on the death penalty case on which the film is based.
Suspects in Taylor murder won't face death penalty
MIAMI - Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.
4 Sean Taylor murder suspects won't face death penalty
MIAMI - Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.
Taylor murder suspects won't face death penalty
MIAMI - Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.
Death penalty nixed in Sean Taylor slaying
MIAMI, May 12 (UPI) -- A lawyer for one of the accused killers of Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor says Florida prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the case.
APNewsBreak: Sniper Muhammad seeks to halt death-row appeal
McLEAN, Va. - Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man."
APNewsBreak: Sniper Muhammad seeks to halt death-row appeal
McLEAN, Va. - Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man."
Ga. court denied execution stay to Lynd
ATLANTA (AP - - The Georgia Supreme Court has denied William Earl Lynd's request for a stay of execution, paving the way for him to become the first inmate in the nation to face execution since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection is constitutional.
Ga. execution would be first since Supreme Court ruling ¤
ATLANTA - Georgia moved forward with preparations to execute a convicted killer, who on Tuesday night could become the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a three-drug lethal injection procedure.
Ga. parole board holds hearing for convicted killer
ATLANTA - A clemency hearing is under way for a convicted Georgia killer whose execution would be the first since the U.S. Supreme Court found lethal injection constitutional.
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