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  • Majority-verdict rule change leaves judges with decisions to make (21 Mar 2010 13:49)

    ... regardless of whether the state pursued the death penalty - needed unanimous jury verdicts for convictions. ... not pursue first-degree murder if possible? The U.S. Supreme Court was poised to hear a case about ...

  • Skinner seeks DNA test (21 Mar 2010 08:51)

    ... in 2010 - comes amid contentions from death penalty opponents that Texas already has used shaky ... date near, his attorneys went to the U.S. Supreme Court with their request for new DNA testing ...

  • Death penalty for repeat child rapists not likely to survive a court challenge (18 Mar 2010 05:37)

    ... Death penalty for repeat child rapists not likely to ... in Louisiana was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. High court justices ruled the ...

  • Senate panel OKs death penalty for child rapists (17 Mar 2010 19:11)

    ... CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Legislature is pushing forward a bill to allow the death penalty for child rapists, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that such a penalty is unconstitutional. A Senate committee on Wednesday passed a ...

  • Powell executed for teen's 1999 murder in Prince William (20 Mar 2010 03:42)

    ... members of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty held a candlelight vigil in a field ... was the 106th in Virginia since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume in ...

  • Va. carries out its first execution by injection (16 Mar 2010 20:15)

    ... the clergy, lost last-minute appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and Gov. George Allen today. He was ... since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Only Texas and Florida have ...

  • Execution tomorrow in 1999 slaying (17 Mar 2010 19:21)

    ... witness Powell's death last year when the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution the day before it ... since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume in 1976, a toll second ...

  • Ronnie Lee Gardner can choose firing squad or lethal injection (18 Mar 2010 19:41)

    ... Parsons died by lethal injection in 1999. Utah has executed six men since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. ...

  • Murderer executed in Va. prison (16 Mar 2010 20:15)

    ... by Gov. George Allen (R), and the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his final appeal Dec. 5. ... C. Dieter, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. Tuggle's attorneys argued on appeal ...

  • Inmate executed in Va. after appeals rejected (16 Mar 2010 21:37)

    ... of appeals was denied today by the U.S. Supreme Court and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ... by Congress of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which limited death penalty ...

  • Virginia man is executed for triple slaying (16 Mar 2010 20:15)

    ... p.m., after a 22-minute delay before the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal, the 38-year-old Smyth ... George Allen (R) disavowing further appeals by anti-death penalty lawyers. His last utterance was: "I'll say ...

  • Va. killer is electrocuted after last-minute pleas fail (16 Mar 2010 19:03)

    ... his life in prison today when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue a stay and Gov. ... Stapert, an official of a coalition of death penalty opponents, said Evans told him a few ...

  • Murderer dies in Virginia's electric chair (16 Mar 2010 17:34)

    ... the six-month-old administration of Wilder, a former death penalty opponent who changed his position several years ... ruling late in the afternoon. Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay at 8:45 p.m. The ...

  • Va. Killer Executed as Appeals Fail (16 Mar 2010 17:34)

    ... Committee, which sought a stay until the U.S. Supreme Court could rule on two cases that raise ... that raise the issue of whether the death penalty is being discriminatorily applied to blacks who ...

  • No new trials for 6 on death row (17 Mar 2010 23:35)

    ... were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on ... on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty. All the men argued that the state ...

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