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Casey Anthony lawyers seek to...
Attorneys for a Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter are expected to ask a judge to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Comment?
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Attorneys to ask judge to block death penalty
... killing her 2-year-old daughter are expected to ask a judge on Thursday to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. A hearing in Casey Anthony's case is set to begin Friday morning in Orlando. Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in ... Comment?
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Ill. man to be sentenced for 1977 killing in Mo.
... Velda Rumfelt in St. Louis County. The jury that convicted the 58-year-old Bowman in October recommended the death penalty. Bowman was imprisoned 28 years for killing 14-year-old Elizabeth West and 21-year-old Ruth Ann Jany in separate cases in ... Comment?
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... consequence of a robbery. If he carried out the actual killing or was the principal player, he could face the death penalty. Limited sequester Before the state put its final five witnesses on the stand Thursday, Walker ordered jurors to a limited ... Comment?
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Manjunath's killer gets lifer as HC commutes death penalty
... passed on March 23, 2007. Manjunath's father Shanmugham said a decision on challenging the commutation of death penalty will be taken by the trust formed after the murder of his son. I B Singh, lawyer for the Trust, said the High Court verdict was ... Comment?
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Plan set for Angola 5 jury selection
... preside over the trials, which he said could take six months to a year to complete. The state is seeking the death penalty against David Mathis, David Brown, Robert G. Carley, Jeffrey Cameron Clark and Barry S. Edge in the Dec. 28, 1999, stabbing ... Comment?
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... Kahler isn't convicted of the capital charge. Attorney General Steve Six hasn't decided whether to seek the death penalty or life in prison without parole, spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett said. Kansas law doesn't require such a decision until five days ... Comment?
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Manjunath murder: Main accused's death penalty commuted to life term
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Friday changed death sentence into life term to main accused in murder of Manjunath Shanmugam , who was an executive of Indian Oil Corporation at Lakhimpur Khiri. Comment?
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... Wrinkles lost the lottery. Back in 2001, this newspaper and six others conducted an investigation of how the death penalty is carried out in Indiana. Their conclusion was that capital punishment in Indiana is not evenly executed, depending ... Comment?
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Delay rejected in Cheshire home invasion case
... Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley. They face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted. Hayes and Komisarjevsky are accused of breaking into the Petit home, severely beating William Petit and forcing ... Comment?
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Reynolds jury pool to gather: Court preparing for case to begin in Jan. or Feb.
... for the trial, although the main concern is to ensure the case is fairly tried. "It's just when you have a death penalty case you're going to run through more jurors than a regular case because the jurors have to be death penalty qualified," Dur- ... Comment?
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No decision on death penalty in Flores case
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said in court no decision has been made on whether to seek the death penalty against twice-convicted rapist David Alex Flores, charged with murder in the deaths of two sisters in Griffith. Comment?
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Execution by gunshot discontinued in Liaoning
Northeast China's Liaoning province has become the first province in the country to make lethal injection the standard practice for all its death penalty convicts. Comment?
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Ind. executes man for 3 murders, first since '07
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... and killing his estranged wife and her brother and sister-in-law in 1994. - Indiana Department of Correction / Death penalty opponents protest in front of the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. They are protesting ... Comment?
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Man convicted in Chicago of 11 murders, 9 rapes, attempted murder
... jury will return Friday to the Criminal Courts Building to hear evidence and then decide whether to impose the death penalty on Crawford, 47. As the verdicts were announced, relatives of the victims cried quietly and hugged, passing tissues among ... Comment?
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... has the gumption to attempt to execute him, there will likely be a hue and cry about carrying out the death penalty on a "disabled" person. Like the attorney for a child who killed his parents crying for mercy because the killer is now an "orphan." ... Comment?
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Mother of East Palo Alto cop killer pleads to have his life spared
... of the trial and will decide whether Alvarez gets life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. Audelia Alvarez, a petite woman who cried repeatedly during her testimony, said her husband returned home when her son was a ... Comment?
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Evansville man executed as protesters march outside prison
... Michigan City where Matthew Eric Wrinkles awaited execution. Members of the Duneland Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty also carried signs calling for a state moratorium on capital punishment. Leader Marti Pizzini of Chesterton says the drum ... Comment?
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Clear up confusion on police warning
... the country will be guided by the ruling and it could directly impact other cases in Florida, including a death penalty case. It is hard to predict how the Supreme Court will rule based on oral arguments, but the court's ideological lines were ... Comment?
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Georgia NAACP backs Gary's defense team's motion for execution stay
"If Carlton Gary is executed, Columbus, Georgia, will join the list of cities and states across this country that has made decisions to seek the death penalty even when there was a preponderance of evidence that pointed to a person's innocence," read an NAACP statement. Comment?
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