Stories tagged "deathpenalty"

Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark MacPhail in Georgia. Since then, all but two of the state's nine non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Mr. Davis is charged with killing a police officer, based entirely on eyewitness evidence. There is no physical evidence in the case, and the murder weapon was never recovered.

HOUSTON, Sept. 28 — A day after the United States Supreme Court halted an execution in Texas at the last minute, Texas officials made clear on Friday that they would nonetheless proceed with more executions in coming months, including one next week.

Two small-town teenagers charged with murder and ethnic intimidation in the beating death of a Mexican man were granted bail Tuesday.

The condemned man was to be put to death Thursday evening for a killing committed by his partner in a 1996 robbery.

Texas is scheduled Thursday to execute a mentally ill man for conspiracy to murder in a case that death penalty opponents say illustrates why the practice is deeply flawed.

The EJI study found 73 cases in the United States where 13- and 14-year-olds have been sentenced to life without parole -- in other words, sentenced to die in prison.

Supreme Court found that the death penalty for child rapists violated the 8th Amendment and could traumatize victims testifying against the perpetrator. The dissenting justices criticized the imposition its "evolving standard of decency".

Michael Rodriguez remembers the exhilaration of newfound freedom when he hid in the back of a stolen truck as he and six of his buddy convicts staged one of Texas' most notorious prison breaks.

Opponents worry these capital statutes do not make children any safer and may in fact further endanger them as offenders will have an incentive to kill their victims to evade detection.