Capital Punishment

Full list of Capital Punishment results
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High court won't consider Tenn. death row inmate's case
–The Supreme Court wouldn't hear the case of an inmate who was charged with robbing, kidnapping, murdering and burying alive three people
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Supreme Court rules out death penalty for Texas inmate
–The Houston district attorney agreed that the inmate should be spared the death penalty
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Ala. executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present
–The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had stayed the execution over the religious arguments, but the U.S. Supreme Court allowed it to proceed
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Appeals court blocks Ala. execution of Muslim inmate
–A Circuit Court of Appeals granted an indefinite stay for the inmate a day before he was scheduled to be executed for slaying a teenager two decades ago
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Death penalty sought for inmate charged with killing 2 Kan. LEOs
–The inmate is charged with the deaths of deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King, who were killed while transporting him back to jail after a hearing
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Last of Ark. execution drugs expire, law fix sought
–Legislators are expected to consider changes to state law that will allow them to resume executions
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Ala. inmate can be executed without chaplain present
–The state say(s) a Christian prison chaplain does not have to be present for the Muslim inmate's execution
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SC senators resurrect bill to bring back the electric chair
–The bill is an attempt to address inabilities to carry out lethal injections because of the lack of chemicals needed
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Texas inmate executed for Houston officer's death
–Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the July 1988 fatal shooting of Officer Elston Howard during a robbery
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Condemned Ala. inmate says state violating his religious rights
–A Muslim inmate said the state violated his rights by having a Christian prison chaplain stand near him while he's executed
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Texas inmate set to be executed for Houston officer's death
–Death row inmate Robert Jennings was condemned for the 1988 slaying of Officer Elston Howard during a robbery
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State opposes condemned man's request to delay execution
–Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says death row inmate Warren Keith Henness' motion is an abuse of the court system
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Nev. inmate whose execution called off found dead in cell
–Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found unresponsive in his solo death-row cell at the state's maximum-security prison
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Ind. officials drop execution bid in 7-year-old's death
–U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibited the inmate's execution because of her disability
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St. Louis man accused of 9 killings; death penalty sought
–Several of the victims were killed while inside vehicles or in drive-by shootings
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