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Indiana Woman Condemned for Killing at 15 is Freed
(INDIANAPOLIS) — A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from...
Navy Ends CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Navy messages have been going out in ALL CAPS since sails were around. But Navy Times is reporting that the sea service has just started permitting lower-case...
Soldier Due to Plead Guilty in Afghan Massacre
(SEATTLE) The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two slumbering villages last year is expected to recount the...
Despite Legal Moves, PNG’s Terrifying Witchcraft Killings Look Set to Continue
One step forward and several giant steps back. That's how the U.N.'s human-rights office described the reintroduction last week of the death penalty in Papua New...
U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty in Afghan Massacre
(JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.) — The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year has pleaded...
Lawyer: Soldier to Admit to Afghan Massacre
(SEATTLE) — The Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war has agreed to plead guilty...
Baling Out
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, charged with murdering 16 Afghan villagers last year, is going to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer says. That’s...
Arias Attorneys Will Put One Witness On: Arias
(PHOENIX) — Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the...
Will the Boston Bomber Get the Death Penalty?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s best hope of escaping death is to admit his guilt
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Roundup World's Most Severe Drug-Smuggling Laws Indonesia recently sentenced 56-year-old British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford to death for smuggling 4.8 kg of...
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O'Malley tells liberal legal group that his policies have strengthened Maryland
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley touted a list of his achievements, including the legalization of same-sex marriage and the repeal of the death penalty, during an address Saturday...
Prosecutors still plan to pursue death for Arias
Authorities plan to try again to secure the death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias after jurors in her trial deadlocked last month on a sentence, the county's top...
Ariel Castro pleads not guilty in Ohio kidnap case
A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges, and the defense hinted at avoiding a trial with a plea deal if the death penalty ...
U. S. Requests Shorter Term for Mob Boss Sentenced to Life
Joseph C. Massino, the former leader of the Bonanno crime family, avoided the death penalty by helping investigators. ...
