Inmate 500th executed in three decades
First woman put to death in nearly 3 years Texas has marked a solemn moment in its criminal justice, putting the 500th person to death since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly...
View ArticleKimberly McCarthy Executed: Texas Carries Out 500th Execution
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy,...
View ArticleMichael Graczyk, AP Reporter, Reflects On Hundreds Of Texas Executions He's...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- About once every three weeks, I watch someone die. Beginning in 1984 when I arrived in Texas for The Associated Press, I've been just a few feet away as one convicted killer after...
View ArticleKimberly McCarthy Set To Become 500th Person Executed In Texas Since 1982
Kimberly McCarthy stabbed her neighbor to death and cut off her finger to pawn her diamond ring. HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in...
View ArticleTexas soon to hit grim milestone: 500th execution
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — Texas, the nation's most prolific executioner of criminals, is about to put its 500th inmate to death since the mid-1970s. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy, a...
View Article>A history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee...
View ArticleGas Chamber May Return In Missouri: Attorney General
ST. LOUIS -- With drugs needed for lethal injection in short supply and courts wrangling over how to execute prisoners without them, Missouri's attorney general is floating one possible solution: Bring...
View ArticleAs Texas nears execution 500, ex-warden reflects on prison system
HOUSTON -- Next week, Texas is scheduled to execute its 500th prisoner since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Barring stays or reprieves, the 500th execution is due to occur Wednesday — and...
View ArticleRonald Post, Obese Ohio Inmate Spared Death Penalty, Dies Week Before Birthday
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio inmate whose 450-pound weight became an issue in his death penalty case has died seven months after being granted clemency, officials said Friday. Ronald Post died Thursday...
View ArticleAndrew Lackey Execution: 'Halloween Killer' Put To Death In Alabama
ATMORE, Ala. -- Alabama has executed its first inmate since 2011, a man convicted of the beating and shooting death of an elderly man on Halloween night in 2005. Authorities say 29-year-old Andrew...
View ArticleBilly Slagle, Ohio Killer Set For Execution, Found Hanged In Cell
CLEVELAND — A man condemned to death for fatally stabbing a neighbor during a Cleveland burglary was found hanged in his cell Sunday just days before his Wednesday execution. Billy Slagle, 44, was...
View ArticleTexas Execution Drug Shortage: State Running Out Of Pentobarbital
This photo taken May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The nation's most active...
View ArticleTexas: America's State-Sponsored Execution Capital
In 1972, the Supreme Court's Furman v. Georgia ruling banned capital punishment, saying: "(T)he imposition and carrying out of the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of...
View ArticleGeorge Stinney, Black Teen Executed In 1944, May Get New Trial
AP An undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History shows 14-year-old George Stinney Jr., the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina. Sixty-five years later,...
View ArticleJohn McCluskey Murder Trial Hears Closing Arguments
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Escaped prisoner John McCluskey killed a retired Oklahoma couple in cold blood while he was on the run and should be convicted of capital murder for his...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Shot Larry Flynt, To Be...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Options for a white supremacist serial killer set to die in Missouri were running out as the state moved toward its first execution in nearly three years. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is...
View ArticleMichael Yowell Executed For Killing Parents In Texas
AP This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Michael John Yowell. Yowell, 43, is set to be executed Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, for the 1998 slayings of John and Carol...
View ArticleRonald Phillips, Death Row Inmate, Decides To Donate Organs
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted child killer scheduled for execution this week requested Monday that his organs be donated to help his ailing mother and sister. Death row inmate...
View ArticleArturo Diaz Executed In Texas For Murder Of Michael Nichols
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A South Texas man was put to death Thursday for a slaying 14 years ago in which the victim was bound with shoelaces and strips of bedding, stabbed 94 times and robbed of $50. The...
View ArticleTexas prepares to execute 500th inmate
HUNTSVILLE, Texas Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. "I remember thinking:...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Also Shot, Paralyzed...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Shot Larry Flynt, To Be...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A federal appeals court in Missouri has upheld the execution of white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, restoring the state's plans to kill Franklin just hours...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee Nathan...
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