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Louisiana Court Backs Death in Child Rape
The Louisiana Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of raping an 8-year-old girl. Legal experts say the man, Patrick Kennedy, is the only inmate on death row in the United States who was not convicted of committing or participating in a killing. Looming over this case, Justice Jeffrey P. Victory wrote for the - Louisiana Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Patrick Kennedy for rape of 8-year-old girl; legal experts say he is only man on death row in US who was not convicted of committing or participating in murder; Justice Jeffrey P Victory says death penalty in this case is warranted by burtality of crime in which victim was so badly injured she required surgery; 1995 state law allows capital punishment for rape of child under 12; there has not been an execution for rape in US since 1964 (M) - By ADAM LIPTAK
Texas Death Row Inmate Set To Be Executed Tomorrow | KGNB ...
1 day ago ... 44-year-old Jonathan Green is scheduled to be executed tomorrow night for the June 2000 kidnapping, rape and murder of 12-year old ...
Texas judge stays execution of man who raped, killed 12-year-old ...
2 days ago ... Texas judge stays execution of man who raped, killed 12-year-old ... Texas inmate narrowly avoided execution 3 times, tries for fourth · Jeffrey ...
The Needle and the Damage Done
On a warm spring day last June in Kansas City, a doctor identified only as John Doe No. 1 sat behind a screen to testify in the case of Michael Anthony Taylor v. Larry Crawford on his practice of executing prisoners by lethal injection for the State of Missouri. To protect the doctors identity, only five people were in the room -- the judge, one - Elizabeth Weil article on legal challenges across US to use of lethal injections to kill condemned prisoners; says challenges are based on copious evidence that lethal injection can easily result in prolonged, painful death in absence of trained physicians, who are unwilling to take part; notes that lethal injections were introduced because of repugnance generated by hanging, electrocutions and other means of carrying out death sentence and says inability to tolerate single execution method for very long seems to stem, in part, from conflicted relationship Americans have with capital punishment; photos (L) - Elizabeth Weil is a contributing writer for the magazine. Her last article was on intersex babies. - By Elizabeth Weil
Texas judge stays execution of man who raped, killed 12-year-old ...
Texas judge stays execution of man who raped, killed 12-year-old. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times -. HOUSTON — A federal judge in Houston on Monday stayed the execution of a Texas man and granted him a ...
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2 days ago ... Texas execution planned for Wednesday ... He is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 more in a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado last week. ... Last year a Montgomery judge ruled that the 44-year-old Texas inmate ...
Punishable by Death
2 days ago ... The Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled against 64-year-old John ... Ferguson is scheduled to be executed next week on October 16 for the killing of six ... here: http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2012/sc12-1987.pdf ..... Foster became the ninth Texas inmate executed this year and the ...
Ohio man who stabbed woman 100 times pleads for mercy ...
Print Story. Published: 11:56 am. Share. Updated: 12:02 pm. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned inmate is seeking mercy ahead of his scheduled execution next month for killing a woman who was stabbed more than 100 times, then had her hands cut off. Brett Hartman came within ... The board has denied two prior requests for mercy, citing the brutal murder of 46-year-old Winda Snipes of Akron in 1997 and the "overwhelming evidence" of Hartman's guilt. ©2012 Associated ...
National News Briefs; Once Spared by Bush, Texas Inmate Is Executed
A condemned killer who was spared in June in a reprieve by Gov. George W. Bush, was executed tonight for raping and fatally bludgeoning his 12-year-old stepdaughter. The killer, Ricky McGinn, 43, insisted he was innocent of the 1993 killing of Stephanie Flanary and said additional DNA tests on hair and semen evidence would prove his case. Only - Ricky McGinn, condemned killer who was spared in June in reprieve by Gov George W Bush, is executed in Texas for raping and murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter in 1993 (S)
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Rape of a Child Merits Death
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Constitution allows the death penalty for the rape of a child. The justices acted only three days before a scheduled argument in another important death penalty case, on the standard for judging whether chemicals used to administer lethal injections make that method of execution - Supreme Court agrees to decide whether Constitution allows death penalty for rape of child; case is likely to be argued in April, meaning that during course of its current term, court will be examining most common method of execution and question about which crimes are appropriate for death penalty; only two of some 3,300 inmates on death row are facing execution for offense that did not involve killing; both are on Louisianas death row; Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeal from Patrick Kennedy, who was sentenced to death in 2004 for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter; Richard Davis is other inmate (M) - By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Shaka Sankofa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lambert's murder occurred at night in the parking lot of a Safeway supermarket. ... He was captured after a 57-year-old woman he had kidnapped, raped and tortured gained control of his ... At the time of his execution, Sankofa became the twenty-third inmate executed in Texas during 2000 and the .... Retrieved 2007-12 -17.
THEATER REVIEW; A Death-Row Tale That Turns Ho-Hum
The Speed Queen, a one-woman show at the New Jersey Repertory Company, based on the novel by Stewart ONan, tells the gory tale of an Oklahoma killing spree. Fueled by snorts of speed, Marjorie (Anne Stockton), a death-row inmate, spews the story into a tape recorder as she faces what may be her last hours. Waiting for word of whether she has - Phoebe Hoban reviews New Jersey Repertory Company production of one-woman show, The Speed Queen, based on novel by Stewart ONan and starring Ann Stockton; photo (M) - By PHOEBE HOBAN
Last Minute Appeal Denied For Texas Death Row Inmate « CBS ...
A Texas man whose lawyers said was mentally ill and incompetent for execution headed to the death chamber Wednesday for killing a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago.
Last Words of Texas Death Row Inmates as 9th Prisoner Set for ...
Sep 25, 2012 ... Texas executed its ninth prisoner of 2012 today after death row inmate ... July, was convicted of killing a 26-year-old man and stealing his wallet in 1998. ... shot him 12 times in the head and upper body, according to the Texas ...
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Texas inmate executed for killing 12-year-old girl. A Texas man whose lawyers said was mentally ill and incompetent for execution is headed to the death chamber for killing a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago after the ...
Jonathan Marcus Green Receives Second Stay of Execution in Texas.
Two days before his scheduled execution, a Montgomery man on Texas' Death Row for the 2000 abduction, rape and strangulation murder of a 12-year-old Dobbin girl received a stay because he wasn't given due process to prove he is mentally incompetent for execution, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Nancy Atlas, in the ... assaulted and robbed another inmate, slamming the other inmate's head against a wall in the process; and • had a violent encounter with ...
The Power of the Fourth
The 19th-century courthouse that houses the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sits across from a CVS and a Dress Barn on a desultory stretch of Main Street in Richmond, Va. The entrance -- peeling Pull sign, metal detector, dim lobby -- is not awe-inspiring. But upstairs in the courtrooms, beneath the pendulous chandeliers - Abortion opponent James C Kopp, in surprise turnaround, waives his right to jury trial for killing a Buffalo-area doctor and instead receives permission to be tried by judge in highly unusual--and potentially risky--bench proceeding that could resolve his murder case in as little as a day; request by Kopp, who has admitted he shot and killed Dr Barnett A Slepian with assault rifle in 1998, draws warning from judge and prompts one of three lawyers defending Kopp to withraw from case; Judge Michael L DAmico approves agreement, negotiated privately and over more than a week between defense and prosecutors, to hold stipulated bench trial to begin on March 17 and perhaps conclude same day; photos (L) - Deborah Sontag is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. - By Deborah Sontag
Argument Escalates on Executing Retarded
Mario Marquez did not deny raping and murdering his 18-year-old wife and her 14-year-old niece, the crimes for which he was convicted in 1984 and executed 11 years later. But on appeal, Mr. Marquezs lawyers presented evidence that he was mentally retarded and suffered from severe brain damage, the result of beatings by his father, with sticks, - Debate intensifies on question of whether any mentally retarded person should be executed, with state governments and Supreme Court weighing in on issue; photo (M) - By RAYMOND BONNER
WORKING DEATH ROW: A special report.; In the Busiest Death Chamber, Duty Carries Its Own Burdens
Jim Willett, the warden of the prison here, awakened a little before 5 a.m. on Tuesday in his home, which his wife, Janice, had decorated for Christmas. He had not been looking forward to the day. My first thought was, Todays an execution, he recalled later that morning. I wonder what hell be like. Mr. Willett said he was hoping - People presiding over executions at death chamber in Huntsville, Tex, nations busiest, are ordinary family men, not champions of the death penalty; Jim Willett, warden, Kenneth Dean, head of tie-down team, and others share their usually unspoken doubts about what they do, including their uneasiness with the detachment that allows them to go about their work; photos (L) - By SARA RIMER
The Power of the Fourth
The 19th-century courthouse that houses the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sits across from a CVS and a Dress Barn on a desultory stretch of Main Street in Richmond, Va. The entrance -- peeling Pull sign, metal detector, dim lobby -- is not awe-inspiring. But upstairs in the courtrooms, beneath the pendulous chandeliers - Deborah Sontag is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. - By Deborah Sontag
Texas lawyers appeal to lift execution reprieve of Jonathan Green ...
HOUSTON — A federal appeals court is deliberating a request to lift a lower court order and reschedule for later in the day the execution of the convicted killer of a 12-year-old Southeast Texas girl.State attorneys appealed to the ... Huntsville of Jonathan Green. The 44-year-old inmate was condemned for the abduction-slaying of Christina Neal 12 years ago. ... Mad dogs aren't competent either, but we know to kill them out of our society. I don't want my taxes going to ...
Texas lawyers appeal to lift execution reprieve - Houston weather ...
1 day ago... of a Texas man condemned for the 2000 killing a 12-year-old girl. ... inmate who won a reprieve that blocks his scheduled execution are ...
October a busy month for executions and stays | CRIME TICKER
The first is Jonathan Green, a Texas inmate. Green was convicted in 2000 of murdering a 12-year-old girl near Houston, Texas. His original execution date was scheduled in 2010 but he received a stay when the a Texas ...
Journal; Death With Commercials
On Monday June 11, NBC broadcast a new show that The Wall Street Journal condemned as the most depressing, nauseating and just plain disgusting TV premiere ever. George Will called it televised degradation, and Ted Koppel went so far as to convene a Nightline to address the question of whether it might move us any closer to the end of - Frank Rich Op-Ed column holds execution of Timothy J McVeigh, by defying widespread expectations for civic satisfaction, may undermine confidence in value of capital punishment; holds it left unease reflected in televised theatrics that surrounded it and in lingering queasiness; holds commercials interspersed with interviews of Oklahoma City bombing victims relatives turned death into another sales tool; drawing (M) - By FRANK RICH
Johnny Garrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnny Frank Garrett (December 24, 1963 – February 11, 1992) was a Texas inmate executed for the rape and murder of a 76-year-old nun, Tadea Benz, on ...
Man won't face execution in 1983 cold-case rape, murder of Ogden girl
OGDEN — Greg Seamons is charged under the 1983 version of Utah's death penalty statute, but he will not face execution if he is convicted of the rape and murder of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger. Seamons, 45, is charged with murder in ... After a DNA link led to Seamons, the current Idaho inmate was charged Friday in 2nd District Court in Ogden. First-degree murder was how capital ... Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 12:48am. Why Are You Crying? North Ogden's ...
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