Frances Newton was executed by lethal injection late Wednesday at Huntsville prison in Texas for fatally shooting her husband and two children in 1987, making her the first black woman executed by the state since it...
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States brief ~ Kentucky judge stays executions to resolve lethal injections constitutionality
Leading Tuesday's states brief, a Kentucky circuit judge issued two stays of execution today to allow two prisoners to continue their challenge to the state's use of lethal injection as a form of execution. Last week, the same judge...
States brief ~ Nebraska high court rules state cannot regulate groundwater
Leading Friday's states brief, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision today that found the state's Department of Natural Resources cannot regulate groundwater unless the legislature confers such authority. Judge John Wright, writing...
Ross put to death in first New England execution for 45 years
Connecticut serial killer Michael Ross was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning in New England's first execution in 45 years, made possible after the state Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that he was competent to...
CT Supreme Court rules Ross competent to end appeals; execution set for Friday
The Connecticut Supreme Court late Monday night ruled that convicted serial killer Michael Ross was competent to end his death-row appeals , leaving the way open for him to be executed by lethal injection this Friday...
Sgt. Hasan Akbar , the US soldier convicted of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder for attacking comrades with a rifle and grenades in Kuwait during the early stages of the Iraq invasion, was sentenced to...
Judge clears way for first New England execution in 45 years
Connecticut Superior Court judge Patrick J. Clifford ruled Friday that convicted serial killer Michael Ross is mentally competent to waive his death penalty appeals. Ross, who was convicted of raping and killing eight woman...
Kentucky inmates challenge lethal injection as new study suggests awareness
Two convicted killers currently on Kentucky's death row begin a court challenge Monday to the state's use of lethal injection as its form of execution. Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling claim that the use of lethal injection is "cruel...
Wednesday's scheduled execution of convicted mass murderer Michael Ross was postponed indefinitely Monday by order of District Judge Robert N. Chatigny, so that Chatigny can hear arguments on Ross' mental capacity. Had the execution by lethal injection...
