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7 hrs ago | Times Record News

Man set to die in Houston woman's 1995 death

Eric Dewayne Cathey acknowledges dealing illegal drugs but insists he's no killer.

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Related Topix: Prison, Texas

11 hrs ago | WKJK-AM Louisville

Beshear Will Not Halt Execution

Barring any last minute legal barriers, Marco Allen Chapman will be executed Friday evening.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Steve Beshear, Warsaw, KY

15 hrs ago | UnionLeader.com

Defense: Addison did not kill officer on purpose

Facing the jury today, Senior Assistant Attorney General N. William Delker gripped the silver handgun used to kill Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

20 hrs ago | Cleveland.com

Case against fatal East 87th arson includes witness with a shady past

Posted by John Caniglia/Plain Dealer Reporter November 16, 2008 21:23PM A key witness in the arson that killed eight children and a woman is a longtime felon who suffers from psychiatric problems and has a ...

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Related Topix: Fire, Prison, Cuyahoga County, OH, Drugs

Yesterday | Seguin Gazette-Enterprise

Trial set for man charged in baby killing

A man accused of killing his infant daughter in 2007 is expected to go on trial in 25th Judicial Court on capital murder charges.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Guadalupe County, TX, Austin, TX, State Prisons, Prison

Sun Nov 16, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Prosecution: Nichols will always be dangerous

The prosecution told jurors Wednesday that Brian Nichols will never stop plotting to escape, he will always be dangerous and that they need to neutralize him by sentencing him to death.

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Related Topix: Prison, Violent Crime

The West Australian

Labor hasn't - flip-flopped' on capital punishment: MP

The federal government says it hasna t a oeflip-floppeda on its opposition to the death penalty by seeking a global ban on capital punishment after the execution of the three Bali bombers.

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Southern Illinoisan

Conflicts, money, bog down probe of Illinois death case billings

A request by the Illinois Attorney General's Office for an investigation into a lawyer's bills to a state death penalty defense fund is mired in concerns over conflicts of interest, and a lack of money.

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Related Topix: Prison, Mount Vernon, IL, Kane County, IL, Jefferson County, IL

Sat Nov 15, 2008

Calgary Sun

Outrage greets day pass

Wed, November 12, 2008 Outraged a convicted killer is being released briefly from behind bars today, one justice advocate says the public has a right to know why David Shearing will be in their midst.

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News9 Oklahoma City

Man Faces Second Conviction in Double Killing

A Tulsa County jury convicted a Tulsa man for the second time on two counts of first-degree murder in the retrial of a 1999 double-homicide case.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Tulsa County, OK, Tulsa, OK

The Associated Press

Toledo man who killed 2 faces execution Wednesday

Staring at the body sprawled on a parking lot, the police detective's mind flashed back to an unresolved killing a few months earlier.

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Father indicted in killings of 2 sons

A 30-year-old Baton Rouge man accused of stabbing his two young sons to death last month has been indicted on first-degree murder charges.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Baton Rouge, LA

Asia Death Penalty

Indonesia executes Islamist terrorists

Indonesian firing squads killed three men for terrorism offences shortly after midnight this morning.

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Related Topix: Terrorism

WTVY Dothan

Court Rejects Alabama Death Penalty Appeal

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has rejected an Alabama inmate's bid to overturn his death sentence for killing three people at a Gadsden Popeye's restaurant in 1994.

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Related Topix: Prison, Violent Crime, Gadsden, AL, Gadsden Metro

Fri Nov 14, 2008

WCTV Tallahassee

DNA on Bloodstained Dollar Leads to Guilty Verdict

Fifty-one-year-old Glenn Howard Griffin was convicted of first-degree murder Friday.

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Related Topix: Brigham City, UT

The Journal News

Yonkers man gets life for fatal shooting of off-duty Bronx cop

A Yonkers man will spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally shooting an off-duty New York City police officer in the Bronx nearly three years ago.

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Related Topix: Yonkers, NY

Northwest Florida Daily News

Man found guilty of murder in death of 2-year-old

Isaiah Howard's mother, his grandparents and nearly a dozen other family members wept during his killer's trial this week.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

Reuters

Obama likely to push courts away from right

President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the right under President George W. ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush, W., Abortion

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