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Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Virginia should be allowed to pursue a capital murder case against an alleged drug kingpin from northern Virginia, overruling a lower court that had sought to put an end to the 12-year legal saga by ordering his unconditional release. In a 2-1 ruling, ...
5 things to know in Florida for May 23
Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. MAN SHOT TO DEATH WHILE QUESTIONED IN BOSTON PROBE A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death early Wednesday after ...
Coroner: Man on SC death row committed suicide
Authorities say a 46-year-old man on death row for killing a fellow inmate killed himself. WCSC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/10jMxkB ) that Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet says Kenneth Justus used a razor blade to commit suicide. Justus died Tuesday night at the maximum security Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville. Nisbet says ...
Killer of off-duty Houston officer loses appeal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from a Vietnamese refugee sent to death row for the slaying of a Houston police officer shot during a robbery while working his off hours as a clerk at his family's convenience store. The state's highest criminal court Wednesday refused ...
News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Vanderbilt poll: Tennesseans oppose online tax NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A majority of Tennesseans oppose the state enforcing online sales taxes, though respondents were split on whether the current system is fair to local businesses, according to a Vanderbilt University poll released Tuesday. The survey also found that 60 percent ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
Minn. session '13: What got done, what didn't ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota state lawmakers promised when the legislative session began that their top priority was setting a new state budget. To that end, they produced a $38.3 billion two-year spending plan that hikes taxes on top income earners ...
Attorneys argue over notes about man on death row
While Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. spent another day on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., the parents of his victim sat in a federal courtroom in North Dakota Tuesday and listened to attorneys argue about the notes of mental health experts. Afterward, Linda Walker and Allan Sjodin ...
Man pleads guilty to Memphis officer's murder
A former death row inmate is set to be released from prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of a Memphis police officer. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Tuesday that she has accepted Timothy McKinney's guilty plea. McKinney was convicted of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting ...
Judge denies Manning new trial in 1993 slayings
A judge has denied death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning's request for a new trial in the 1993 slayings of a 90-year-old woman and her 60-year-old daughter in Starkville. Oktibbeha County Circuit Judge Lee Howard handed down his ruling Tuesday. Manning's attorney, Robert S. Mink of Jackson, said he will ...
US: Prison can't contain Pa. drug kingpin's rage
No prison can contain the fury of a Philadelphia boxer-turned-drug kingpin who killed a dozen people, including two women and four children trapped in a retaliatory house fire, prosecutors told a federal jury Tuesday. Kaboni Savage, 38, was convicted earlier this month of killing witnesses, rivals and strangers alike during ...
Parents of slain student: Justice will be served
The parents of slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin (shuh-DEEN') say the man convicted of killing their daughter isn't the only person who received a death sentence. Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn., sits on death row in Terre Haute, Ind., while his lawyers argue what is believed ...
Death row inmate loses post-conviction arguments
A judge has dismissed the post-conviction arguments of death row inmate Marlon Howell convicted in the 2001 slaying of a newspaper carrier. In 2008, the Mississippi Supreme Court allowed Howell to pursue post-conviction arguments that challenged the testimony of a prosecutor's witness, on whether he was denied an attorney to ...
Nevada Assembly passes Brianna's Law
Seconds after the Assembly narrowly approved a bill Monday requiring DNA to be collected upon booking for a felony arrest, Bridgette Zunino-Denison's phone buzzed. It was a text from Jayann Sepich, the mother of Katie Sepich who is the namesake of the federal version of the same law. "Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!" it ...
After 2 decades, nun's crusade continues
For two decades, Sister Helen Prejean has traveled around the world, speaking against capital punishment. She tells audiences about being a spiritual adviser to inmates on death row and talks about what it means to accompany a man to his death. She tells of meeting the families of the condemned ...
Ohio governor to alert families to execution mercy
In the future Ohio Gov. John Kasich will call family members of murder victims when he decides to spare the lives of death row inmates, the governor's office said Friday. Kasich's decision followed a meeting earlier this week with relatives of a homicide victim upset by the governor's decision to ...
Board denies clemency for condemned Okla. inmate
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency Friday for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month for the slayings of an elderly Le Flore County couple 13 years ago. The five-member board voted 3-2 against recommending that Gov. Mary Fallin commute the death sentence of James ...
Monroe prison guard killer moved to Walla Walla
Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington State Reformatory, but he will face the same security measures as the other eight death row inmates at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a Department of Corrections spokesman said. Scherf is confined to the intensive ...
Indonesia executes 3 inmates on prison island
Indonesia has executed three death row inmates who were convicted of mutilating a man and murdering a family. Attorney General Office spokesman Untung Arimuladi says the three Indonesian men were executed by firing squad Friday at a high-security prison on Nusakambangan island. A court in South Sumatra province had sentenced ...
Prosecution seeks death for man in sons' deaths
Prosecutors continue to press a North Texas jury to send a man to death row for drowning two of his sons in a creek. The Dallas County jury is to hear more testimony in the penalty phase of Naim Rasool Muhammad's trial. The jury took less than 10 minutes Wednesday ...
Emotional day of testimony in Arias trial
Jurors deciding whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will get the death penalty heard the victim's brother describe Thursday how he was hospitalized for ulcers, lost sleep and separated from his wife after his brother was killed. Travis Alexander's younger brother Steven paused to choke back tears and regain his composure ...
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