An L.A. court mistakenly destroyed evidence a death row inmate says would...
December 17, 2017 From his small cell on California’s death row, Scott Pinholster swore he could prove his innocence. The proof, he said, was in the dried blood on a work boot and a pink towel...
View ArticleHowland woman condemned to death row asking for another appeal
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Lawyers for Ohio’s only condemned female killer have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to accept her appeal. Death row inmate Donna Roberts was convicted of planning her ex-husband’s 2001...
View ArticleLawyer for Canadian man on death row in Montana says U.S. ‘in the waning...
CALGARY—A lawyer for a Canadian on death row in Montana believes it’s only a matter of time before the death penalty in much of the United States is abolished and his client will be free to return...
View ArticleFlorida Death Row Inmate Gets New Sentencing Hearing
December 21, 2017 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court is ordering a new sentence for a man involved in the deadly kidnapping of a young couple from South Beach. The court on Thursday upheld...
View ArticleFlorida death row inmate who brutally stabbed a pregnant woman to death in...
December 22,2017 A Florida man convicted in the 1993 stabbing death of a pregnant woman will stand trial for the death of the victim’s son 23 years later. The Sun Sentinel reports the Broward County...
View ArticleAugusta death row inmate dies of cancer nearly 14 years after conviction
January 3, 2018 A death row inmate convicted of fatally beating an Augusta woman died Tuesday in an Atlanta prison hospital where he was undergoing cancer treatment. Robert O. Arrington, 70, was...
View ArticleShould New Mexico bring back the death penalty?
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2018 10:40 am Death row at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in the early 2000s. New Mexican file photo Yes, bring back the death penalty 63% No, it should remain abolished 38%...
View ArticleExecution date set for first Indian-origin death-row prisoner in US
JANUARY 12, 2018 The execution of the first death-row Indian prisoner, convicted of killing a baby and her Indian grandmother, has been set for February 23. In 2014, Raghunandan Yandamuri, 32, was...
View ArticleEXECUTED –‘Tourniquet Killer’ set to be executed in Texas – Anthony Shore...
JAN. 18, 2018 In his final statement, Shore, 55, was apologetic and his voice cracked with emotion. “No amount of words or apology could ever undo what I’ve done,” Shore said. “I wish I could undo...
View ArticleQuestions Linger for Anthony Shore, Larry Swearingen
January, 18 2018 Houston serial killer Anthony Shore faces another death date, this one Jan. 18. Shore was originally set for execution in October, but that got halted by the Harris County District...
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