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4 hrs ago | Philly.com

Chesco DA to seek death penalty for man in girlfriend's death

The Chester County District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty for a murder suspect who announced his plans to kill his girlfriend on Facebook.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

6 hrs ago | Democracy Now

Sister Helen Prejean & Bill Pelke on Freeing the Death Row Prisoner Who Killed Pelke's Grandmother

Bill Pelke , An anti-death penalty advocate. On May 14, 1985, his grandmother Ruth Pelke was murdered by then 15-year-old Paula Cooper.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Dead Man Walking, Science Fiction Movies, Prison, Activism

10 hrs ago | KREX

Defense in Sherry Arnold Case Seeks to Avoid Death

Defense attorneys are seeking to avoid the death penalty for one of two men charged in the killing of a Montana high school teacher because they say the suspect is mentally disabled.

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14 hrs ago | Evansville Courier & Press

Weisheit guilty of murder; prosecutors seek death penalty

MOLLY BARTELS / Courier & Press It took a Clark County jury less than two hours to find Jeffrey Weisheit guilty of setting a house fire that killed two Evansville children.

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Related Topix: Fire, Evansville, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Statesman Journal

Inmate may face death penalty in murder of fellow inmate

The Marion County District Attorney's Office may seek the death penalty for David Ray Bartol, an inmate accused of stabbing another inmate to death with a homemade knife.

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Related Topix: Prison, Marion County, OR

The Wichita Eagle

Inmates accused in prison killing seek separate trials

Following an extensive defense investigation that has included the review of hundreds of thousands of Bureau of Prisons records, attorneys for inmates Joseph Cabrera Sablan and James Ninete Leon Guerrero say separate trials are necessary to ensure each gets a fair shake.

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Related Topix: Prison, Federal Prisons, Atwater, CA, Oceania, Northern Mariana Islands, World News

KXXV-TV Waco

Judge sets Fort Hood suspect trial for July 9

Jury selection will start later in July if a jury consultant hired for Hasan's defense is unavailable.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX

Red Bluff Daily News

Some states speed up death penalty

A North Carolina judge ruled last year that Marcus Robinson s trial was so tainted by the racially-influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence.

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Mendocino Beacon

Some states speed up death penalty

A North Carolina judge ruled last year that Marcus Robinson s trial was so tainted by the racially-influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence.

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Fox 23

Tulsa County DA will not seek death penalty in Strait murder trial

The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty against a man charged in the murder of an 84-year old Tulsa woman.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Tulsa County, OK

The Capital-Journal

Advocate cycles for repeal of death penalty

As the son of a murder victim, Topekan Bill Lucero knows the pain of losing a loved one through violence.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Sam Brownback, US News, US Senate, Republican, Prison

KFOXTV

Reports say DA will not ask for death penalty in rape, murder of Nancy Strait

Nancy had also been raped. Yesterday media reports confirmed that the Tulsa District Attorney's office will not seek the death penalty in the case due to Woodfork's IQ.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Offbeat

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Serial murder suspect gives own opening statement

Accused serial killer Joseph Naso, left, talks with his legal adviser Pedro Oliveros as the prosecution made their opening statements in Marin Superior Court in front of Judge Andrew Sweet on Monday, June 17, 2013, in San Rafael, Calif.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, San Rafael, CA, Marin County, CA

Tulsa World

Tyrone Dale David Woodfork won't be targeted for death penalty, Tulsa County prosecutors say

The odds of passing a driver's test for a Class D license might depend in part on where the test is taken and who gives the exam, a Tulsa World analysis of exam data shows.

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Related Topix: Tulsa County, OK, Tulsa, OK

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Capital-Journal

Kansas man faces death penalty in slaying of relatives

A southeast Kansas man could face the death penalty after being convicted of murdering three of his relatives at their home in west-central Missouri.

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Related Topix: Garnett, KS

SFGate

Lawyers preparing for death penalty trial in Vt.

Lawyers in the case of a Vermont man facing the federal death penalty on charges he sexually assaulted and killed his niece five years ago were given another week Monday to agree on jury-selection procedures for the trial set for later this year.

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KPLC-TV Lake Charles

Murdered woman's family hopeful "FBI Top 10 list" will lead to arrest

It's been more than five years since the brutal crime happened. Now, federal authorities have added Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara to the ten most wanted fugitive list.

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News 4 Jax

Death row deaths in Florida rising

In Tallahassee, each of the governors average about two executions per year during their years in office.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Rick Scott, US Governors, Charlie Crist

Alabama Live

Defense stays mute in Carlos Kennedy murder trial; Mobile County judge mulls death penalty

Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston talks to Carlos Kennedy during a hearing Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

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Related Topix: Mobile County, AL, Mobile, AL, Folk, The Kennedys

CNN

Woman sentenced to death to walk free, shop with victim's grandson

Paula Cooper, once a teen on Indiana's death row, was released from prison on Monday, June 17. She spent 27 years behind bars for stabbing a 78-year-old Bible teacher Ruth Pelke in the stomach and chest 33 times.

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Related Topix: Prison, 9, California