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By AMANDA LEE MYERS and BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” should be sentenced to death for murdering nine women and a teenage girl over more than two decades in South Los Angeles, a jury decided Monday. Lonnie Franklin Jr. stared straight ahead and showed no emotion as a court […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The husband of a woman gunned down at a historic black church in Charleston with eight other people said Wednesday he won’t be at peace until the man charged in the slayings is put to death. Arthur Hurd, whose wife, Cynthia, was among those killed June 17 during Bible study, is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday. “The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision,” Lynch said in a brief statement that […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers during a Bible study will face the death penalty, according to court documents filed Thursday. The documents said prosecutors would pursue the death penalty against Dylann Roof, 21, because more than two people were killed, and that others’ lives were put […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the state of Mississippi from using two drugs in executions. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday saying Mississippi officials cannot use pentobarbital or midazolam, two drugs used to render prisoners unconscious. Mississippi state law requires a three-drug process, with […]
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in over the next few days on Texas’ plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead. If past practice is any guide, the court is much more likely to allow the lethal-injection executions to […]
The Associated Press Last week’s botched execution in Oklahoma has again focused the nation’s attention on the death penalty. Although support for capital punishment remains high in Mississippi, it is eroding steadily around the nation. According to the Pew Research Center, support for the death penalty last year had dipped to 55 percent, continuing a […]
PARCHMAN – A 61-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and repeatedly running over her body with his car was executed by lethal injection last Thursday at Mississippi‘s state prison in Parchman. William J. Mitchell had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, but his petition and application was denied. On July […]