Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has repeatedly fallen short in his attempts to persuade lawmakers to abolish capital punishment. But as he nears the end of his term, O'Malley is close to achieving through delay and inertia what he could not change in the law.
Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge leaves court at the federal building during a lunch break Wednesday.
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A former Chicago Police detective who allegedly witnessed former Cmdr. Jon Burge play "Russian roulette" with a suspect and put a typewriter cover over the man's head is expected to be a key prosecution witness in Burge's upcoming trial, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
Mark Clements, freed last year from 28 years behind bars, outside the Cook County correctional facility. Clements alleges his confession was beaten out of him by Chicago police detectives working for Jon Burge.
FROM THE NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE IN DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN:
Dear friends:
The state of Tennessee is scheduled to execute Gaile Owens on September 28th, unless we can convince Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen to commute her death sentence to life in prison.
A national physicians organization has quietly decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the death sentence of a Caribbean-born woman convicted of murder in Texas, clearing the way for the first execution of a British woman in 55 years.
British officials and pro bono lawyers had appealed to the justices to order a new trial for Linda Carty, citing what they said were gross errors by her court-appointed lawyer during the 2001 trial, in which prosecutors said Carty killed her neighbor to steal her newborn son.
Troy Anthony Davis’s hearing to present his innocence claims in the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail has been rescheduled.
The 40 year old Davis is on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison at Jackson for his 1991 conviction and death sentence in the MacPhail case.
According to the court, the state had filed a motion to reschedule due to a conflict concerning Beth Burton, the head of the state’s Capital Litigation section.
A death row inmate who sneaked into his estranged girlfriend's Will County farmhouse in 2002 and beat her and three others to death with a crowbar apparently killed himself Thursday because he was scared of being moved into the prison system's general population.
Brian Nelson, 27, who was convicted of murder, home invasion and aggravated arson in 2006, was found dead in his Pontiac Correctional Center cell about 2:30 a.m., according to a Department of Corrections spokeswoman. Other sources said it appeared Nelson had hanged himself.
A June 30 hearing was scheduled Tuesday for convicted murderer Troy Anthony Davis to present his innocence claims in the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail.
Chief U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. also ordered attorneys for Davis and the state to file their lists of all witnesses, affidavits and other evidence by June 11.
Davis, 40, remains on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison at Jackson for his 1991 conviction and death sentence in the MacPhail case.
A federal judge has scheduled a June 30 evidentiary hearing for Troy Anthony Davis, the death-row inmate who claims he did not shoot and kill a Savannah police officer in 1989.
Last August, in an extraordinary order, unlike any it has issued in almost half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court halted Davis' execution and directed a federal judge in Savannah to conduct a hearing.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the death sentence of a Caribbean-born woman convicted of murder in Texas, clearing the way for the first execution of a British woman in 55 years.