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5 hrs ago | CBS 2

Man Pleads 'Not Guilty' to Murder of Baby Daughter

A man who is accused of killing his daughter near Desert Hot Springs, then wrapping the two-month-old in plastic and traveling around the country with the body before leaving the corpse in a camper in Arkansas, pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

10 hrs ago | KIFI Idaho Falls

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law

14 hrs ago | Star-telegram.com

State briefs: Man sentenced to life in prison for Dallas smoke shop killing

Man gets life in prison for '08 killing DENTON - A 21-year-old man convicted in the 2008 killing of a customer at a Dallas smoke shop has been sentenced to life in prison.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Denton County, TX

Fri Nov 06, 2009

NBC13.com

Alabama Supreme Court gives death row inmate another review

The Alabama Supreme Court has told a lower court to take another look at a death penalty case from Jefferson County.

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Related Topix: Prison, Jefferson County, AL

KHWB-TV Houston

Jurors opt for execution of California man who boasted of killing sister, brother-in-law

A trucker from Northern California has been given the death sentence for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.

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Daily Times

Jury urges death penalty in 2007 slaying

A Sussex County Superior Court jury has recommended the death penalty for Emmett Taylor III, the man convicted late last week in the bludgeoning death of his fiancee just days before their planned 2007 wedding.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Long Neck, DE, Millsboro, DE

Belleville News

Husband of suspect in Cape Girardeau killings: 'I hope she fries'

The husband of Michelle Lawrence wants her to face harsh punishment for her role in the attack that killed his fiancee, her unborn child and her 15-year-old son.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Missouri

The Clarion-Ledger

Man receives life sentence, no parole in slaying of Laurel teacher

Ron McLain stood in a silent courtroom Wednesday afternoon, staring just a few feet away at the man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for the slaying of McLain's daughter last year.

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Related Topix: Laurel, MS

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Missourian

Defendant uses mental disability as defense against death penalty sentence

The attorney for a Missouri man sentenced to death for a 1992 killing urged theMissouri Supreme Court on Thursday to spare his client, saying he is mentally disabled.

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court, US News

KRCA-TV Burbank

I-5 Strangler Gets 6 Life Terms In Prison

The so-called I-5 Strangler was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to six Northern California killings in an effort to avoid the death penalty.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, San Quentin State Prison, State Prisons, Prison, El Dorado County, CA

WXIA-TV Atlanta

Appeals Court Rejects Death Row Inmate's Claim

A federal court has denied the appeal of a Georgia death row inmate who argued he received ineffective counsel at his trial.

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Related Topix: Prison, Georgia, Georgia Government, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

The Modesto Bee

Death sentence in Sparks killing overturned

A divided Nevada Supreme Court overturned the death sentence and ordered a new penalty hearing Wednesday for one of three men convicted of robbing and killing a paraplegic woman in Sparks.

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Nashua Telegraph

New proposal would add home invasion to list of capital crimes

A Mont Vernon legislator unveiled plans Tuesday to expand the death penalty to include home invasions by those who intend to kill.

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Related Topix: Mont Vernon, NH

Wed Nov 04, 2009

KATV Little Rock

Juror in Vance Trial Excused

Little Rock - The jury panel for a high-profile murder trial was reduced by one Wednesday after a juror said he could not vote for the death penalty.

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Related Topix: Little Rock, AR

WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Court sets 2 new execution dates in Oho

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday set two new execution dates even as the state continues to rework its procedures for putting condemned inmates to death by injection.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Prison

Telegram & Gazette

Detectives set to tear down walls of rapist's home

A convicted rapist who lived among 10 corpses was ordered held without bond Wednesday as investigators prepared to begin tearing apart walls inside the house in search of more evidence or bodies.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

Daily Herald

Sentencing hearing set for Degorski

A former handyman convicted of killing seven employees at a suburban Chicago restaurant will be formally sentenced.

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Related Topix: Chicago Metro, Cook County, IL, Palatine, IL

Seacoast Online

N.H. bill would make home raid killings a capital crime

A lawmaker said Tuesday he was sponsoring legislation to make home invasion killings a capital offense and naming the bill after a Mont Vernon woman killed with a machete in her bed during a burglary.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Mont Vernon, NH

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Herald Star Online

/Yarbrough found guilty in.....

Terrell Yarbrough was found guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide in the May 31, 1999 kidnap-slaying of Aaron Land, 20, of Philadelphia, and Brian Muha, 18, of Westerville, Ohio, at noon today in Washington County Common Pleas Court after approximately seven-and-a-half hours of jury ...

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Westerville, OH

Myrtle Beach Online

Trial to start for man accused of killing Pressly

Popular television personality Anne Pressly never regained consciousness after she was found in her bed, brutally beaten by an intruder.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Pulaski County, AR, Business News

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