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Jury returns death sentence for ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer

June 7, 2016 Online Editor 0

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 […]

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Charleston church shooting: Victims’ families support decision to seek death penalty

May 27, 2016 Online Editor 0

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 […]

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Charleston church shooting: Justice Department to seek death penalty

May 25, 2016 Online Editor 0

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. […]

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Prosecutors: Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to face death penalty

September 4, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Prosecutors: Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to face death penalty

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 […]

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Federal judge orders temporary halt to Mississippi executions, state to appeal

August 26, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Federal judge orders temporary halt to Mississippi executions, state to appeal

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 […]

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Justices speak out about death penalty, but executions go on

August 12, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Justices speak out about death penalty, but executions go on

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 […]

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Botched execution in Oklahoma may have impact in Mississippi (Other views)

May 7, 2014 Online Editor Comments Off on Botched execution in Oklahoma may have impact in Mississippi (Other views)

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. […]

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Inmate executed for 17-year-old sex crime

March 26, 2012 Monica Land 0

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. […]

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