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Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He is to be the second inmate killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. AP Clarence Carter, who beat to death a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate, is scheduled to be ...
Arizona Inmate Executed Amid Questions Over Drug
By not in system - AOL NewsFLORENCE, Ariz. -- A man convicted of killing two people in a 1989 Phoenix convenience store robbery was executed Tuesday despite last-minute arguments by his attorneys who raised questions over one of the lethal injection drugs and said they had raised "substantial doubt" about his guilt. Arizona DOC / Arizona Republic / AP Eric John King, convicted of shooting and killing two people in 1989, was executed Tuesday. Eric John King's death at the state prison in Florence was the first execution in the state since October and one of the last expected to use a three-drug lethal ...
Death Row Killer Outlives Victim's Dad, Who Sought Justice for Decades
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsFor 27 years, a heartbroken father turned victims' rights advocate penned hundreds of letters and newspaper articles, slamming the California judicial system that let his daughter's killer languish on death row with no execution date in sight. All the while, his nemesis, serial killer Dean Carter, churned out missives of his own in a blog that decried San Quentin's slow mail service, cramped conditions and restrictive visitation policies while commenting on social issues such as elections, budget deficits, school violence and O.J. Simpson. Cullins Family / North County ...
End of Lethal Injection Drug in US Leaves Death Penalty in Flux
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsNow that the one U.S. company that made a main ingredient used in lethal injections has decided to end production, where does that leave the executions planned in death chambers across the country? Likely facing delays, as expected challenges play out in court and many states scramble to find an alternative. "I guarantee litigation," death penalty proponent Dudley Sharp told AOL News. "There will be a slowdown." Chicago Tribune/MCT) In 2003, an average of two condemned inmates each month were strapped onto a gurney and injected with three lethal drugs in the death chamber at "The ...
Death Penalty Support Wanes Amid Errors and Debate
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyA little more than one generation after the United States Supreme Court reinstalled the death penalty as a sentencing option in criminal cases, and despite otherwise strong support for tough-on-crime laws, capital punishment in America is markedly on the wane. Executions are down dramatically. Death sentences are being recommended less frequently by juries and endorsed less often by judges. And wrongfully convicted death-row inmates in increasing numbers are being released from prison as a result of DNA testing and other exonerating evidence. Today, nearly half of the jurisdictions in the ...
Death Row Reprieve: Does Ohio Also Owe Kevin Keith a New Trial?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyConvicted murderer Kevin Keith could look at the week's dramatic developments in his life in one of two ways. He could consider himself very lucky that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland commuted his capital sentence to life in prison without parole. Or he could consider himself still accursed that he'll likely remain in prison anyway for the rest of his natural days despite his claim that he did not murder two adults and a four-year-old child -- family members of an alleged police drug informant -- in 1994. How do you see the glass, Mr. Keith, now that the very government that incarcerates you has ...
Hank Skinner Death Penalty Case: Texas Jurors Reconsider Verdict
By Medill Innocence Project - Politics DailyThis story was reported by Rachel Cicurel, Gaby Fleischman, Emily Glazer, and Alexandra Johnson. In March 1995, a jury left a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse having unanimously decided that DNA testing and compelling testimony led to an inescapable verdict: Henry "Hank" Skinner deserved to die for the murders of his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two adult sons in their home on New Year's Eve 1993. Twila was bludgeoned to death; her sons were stabbed. The jury primarily based its decision on evidence that showed the victims' blood on Skinner's clothes and the testimony of a neighbor. ...
Federal Inmates Get Death, Though Executions Rare
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(May 24) -- One of the last three people executed in a federal case in this country was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who died by lethal injection on June 11, 2001. To say the least, putting convicted criminals to death in federal cases is not all that common, particularly when compared with state cases. Just this month, three inmates from Texas were executed, as well as two from Mississippi and one from Virginia. Fifty-two were executed last year in state court, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Now in federal court comes Mark Issac Snarr, 34, and Edgar Balthazar ...
British Woman on Texas Death Row Loses Supreme Court Appeal
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA British woman condemned to die in Texas for the 2001 killing of her neighbor lost a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court for a stay of execution. Linda Carty, a St. Kitts-born British national, faces execution after the justices Monday refused to review her abduction and murder case, BBC News reported. The appeal was based on claims that Texas officials waited too long to inform British authorities of her arrest, which Carty said hurt her defense. Her lawyers relied on the Vienna Convention and a U.S.-British treaty, which require notification of arrests of nationals "without delay." ...
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