Sons Of Sam

Associated PressLUCASVILLE -- Ohio today executed a man for the 1992 stabbing death of a collectibles store owner in Toledo, the state's second execution in as many months. Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, died by lethal injection at 10:41 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Bryant-Bey's execution proceeded after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied his request for a 60-day reprieve. He had wanted more time to present additional information about his case to Gov. Ted Strickland,...[Read More]

Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, TX -- A Houston man who participated in a notorious death row escape attempt a decade ago won a reprieve to keep him from the Texas death chamber Tuesday for the fatal shooting of a woman during an abduction.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued the stay of execution for convicted killer Eric Dewayne Cathey, 37, about 4 1/2 hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection.Cathey had insisted he wasn't involved in the slaying of 20-year-old Christina Castillo,...[Read More]

Late Breaking news Cannaday will not be executed on the 19thA judge has delayed tomorrow's scheduled execution of Texas condemned killer Rogelio Cannaday until at least March. Cannady's new appeals attorney sought more time to review the case. Cannady was condemned for the 1993 fatal beating of his cellmate at the McConnell Unit. Cannaday was serving life for two other slayings when Leovigildo Bonal was killed.

Dessert NewsProsecutors in central Utah have filed court papers seeking to have a death row inmate's stay of execution lifted.In a motion filed last week in Manti's 6th District Court, Sanpete County Attorney Ross Blackham seeks a death warrant for Troy Michael Kell."Kell has no pending action challenging either his conviction or sentence. Therefore, no legal reason exists to delay issuing an execution warrant," Blackham and assistant Utah Attorney General Thomas Brunker wrote.The Utah Supreme Court...[Read More]

Associated PressThe U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed Virginia death row inmate Edward Nathaniel Bell's appeal.Bell was sentenced to death for the 1999 killing of Winchester police Sgt. Ricky Timbrook. Prosecutors said Bell shot Timbrook in the face because he feared the officer would find him carrying a gun or drugs.The Supreme Court said in May it would consider whether lower courts correctly weighed Bell's claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him during the sentencing phase of his...[Read More]

UPIPRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. respondents to a poll, by a more than 2-to-1 ratio, strongly support the death penalty for convicted murderers, a Gallup Poll released Monday indicated.The poll indicated that 64 percent of those asked supported the death penalty while 30 percent said they didn't.In addition to those who support the death penalty, 48 percent of respondents said they think it isn't imposed often enough, while 21 percent said it was imposed too often, Gallup said.Twenty-three...[Read More]

The Nassau GuardianGrieving relatives of some of the country's latest murder victims assembled at the home of Sirdino Smith in Yellow Elder Gardens yesterday, to have their voices heard and to pledge support for a 'pro-hanging' march to resume capital punishment in The Bahamas.Sirdino Smith was a victim in a recent triple homicide in the Augusta Street area back on September 20th.The march is scheduled for 22nd November throughout the streets of New Providence. This will be similar to the one that...[Read More]

Democrat and ChronicleSerial killer Arthur Shawcross died Monday evening, corrections officials said today. Shawcross, 63, was taken to the Albany Medical Center on Monday, according to Department of Correctional Services spokesman Erik Kriss. He was serving a sentence of 250 years to life for the murders of 11 women between 1988 and 1990, when he was arrested. Ten of his victims were from Monroe County and the 11th was killed in Wayne County.Shawcross' three-month trial in the Monroe County slayings...[Read More]

Associated PressTALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Supreme Court has lifted a stay of execution for a man who killed his girlfriend's teenage daughter 25 years ago in Tampa.The stay had been set to expire Nov. 18, but the justices dissolved it Thursday, six days after they denied three separate appeals by Wayne Tompkins.A spokesman for Gov. Charlie Crist says a new execution date has not been set. Tompkins also is pursing appeals in the federal courts.Fifty-seven-year-old Tompkins was convicted of...[Read More]

HARRISBURG, Pa. A Philadelphia man who brutally murdered his pregnant, distant cousin has had his death warrant signed by Governor Edward G. Rendell.The signing of Larry Rush's warrant, the Governor's 82nd, means the 48-year-old convict is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Jan. 7.Police said Rush stabbed Veronica Hands 51 times on May 8, 1987. Hands was eight-and-a-half months pregnant at the time of the incident, which happened in the woman's Federal Street apartment. Her unborn baby was also...[Read More]

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania death row inmate says he is ending his fight to overturn his conviction in a 1987 murder and now wants to be executed immediately.The Lancaster New Era reports that 47-year-old Orlando Baez has asked a Lancaster County judge for a hearing on his request to be put to death. The hearing has been set for Dec. 15.Baez has spent 15 years on death row appealing his conviction for raping, stabbing, beating and strangling a 22-year-old mother of two young children. He's...[Read More]

Texas Denard Manns has been executed this evening by lethal injection at the Huntsville Texas Execution Chamber for his crime of murdering Michelle Robson...AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about Denard Sha Manns, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2008. In 2002, Manns was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of Michelle Robson in her home in Killeen.FACTS OF THE CRIMEOn November...[Read More]

George Whitaker has been executed this evening by lethal injection at the Texas Death House at the Huntsville Prison Unit.AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about George Whitaker III, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, for the murder of 16-year-old Shakeitha Carrier.FACTS OF THE CRIMEOn June 15, 1994, George Whitaker drove to the Crosby home of the parents of his former girlfriend and told her mother, Mary Carrier,...[Read More]

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for Dec. 10 to hear an appeal from death row inmate Joseph Bishop Goff.The Theodore, Ala., man was sentenced to death in George County in 2005 for the slaying of Brandy Stewart Yates at a George County motel.Goff was convicted of arson and capital murder for the death of Yates of Irvington, Ala. Her body was found burned and mutilated in her room at the Rocky Creek Inn in August 2004.Goff was sentenced to death for capital murder...[Read More]

Time ArgusBRENTWOOD, N.H. — A millionaire businessman was spared the death penalty in what would have been New Hampshire's first execution since 1939.The decision by the Rockingham County Superior Court jury means an automatic sentence of life without parole for John Brooks for hiring three men to kidnap and kill a man he believed had stolen from him. Jack Reid was beaten to death with a sledgehammer in 2005.Brooks' shoulders sagged briefly as the verdict was announced Thursday and one of his attorneys...[Read More]

CILACAP, Indonesia – A local television station says three Indonesian militants have been executed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people.There was no official confirmation.TVOne quoted unnamed officials as saying Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron went before a firing squad on the prison island of Nusakambangan.The men were found guilty of planning and helping carry out the Oct. 12, 2002 attacks that thrust Indonesia onto the front lines in the war on terror....[Read More]

TriCity HeraldA Dec. 3 execution has been set at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, the state Department of Corrections said Wednesday.A federal appeals court ruling has lifted a stay of execution for Darold Ray Stenson, a DOC spokeswoman said.Stenson, 55, was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder in Clallam County in 1994, for the shooting deaths of his wife, Denise Stenson, and his business partner, Frank Hoerner.The last person executed at the penitentiary was James Homer...[Read More]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Supreme Court has denied three separate appeals from a convicted killer whose stay of execution is due to expire Nov. 18.The justices ruled against Wayne Tompkins on Friday. He strangled a teenager 25 years ago in Tampa.The appeals included a claim the state's lethal injection procedure is unconstitutional because it inflicts cruel and unusual punishment.The state justices and U.S. Supreme Court also rejected similar appeals by two other Florida death row inmates...[Read More]

Associated PressLOUISVILLE — A Kentucky Death Row inmate has lost his bid to use DNA testing to overturn his conviction and sentence after a judge ruled that the tests were too inconclusive to overcome the other evidence.Jefferson Circuit Judge James Shake ruled Friday that because DNA tests in the case of Brian Keith Moore were not definitive, there's nothing to undercut the evidence presented at his trial for the 1979 murder of Virgil Harris in Louisville.Moore, 50, was convicted based in part...[Read More]

Associated PressSANTA ANA – A jury yesterday recommended death for a man convicted of murdering a couple by binding them to the anchor of their yacht and throwing them into the ocean off California as they pleaded for their lives.Skylar Deleon, 29, sat motionless as the jury announced its decision after nearly two days of deliberation in Orange County Superior Court.“He was disappointed,” Deleon's attorney Gary Pohlson said. “He was very hopeful he wouldn't get the death penalty.”Deleon...[Read More]

Elkie Lee Taylor has been executed this evening by lethal injection at the Huntsville Prison Death Chamber in Texas,after exhausting all of his last minute appeals.AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about Elkie Lee Taylor, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on November 6, 2008.Taylor was convicted and sentenced to death in Tarrant County for the robbery and murder of 65-year-old Otis Flake in his Fort Worth home.FACTS OF THE CRIMEIn the early...[Read More]

Orlando Sentinel-A Miami lawyer hired by Casey Anthony's defense team gave prosecutors Wednesday a report that outlined why the single mother accused of killing her child should not get the death penalty.The 30-page packet highlights problems with some of the evidence, defines how details in Anthony's case does not fit the state criteria needed for the death penalty -- a penalty reserved for the worst of the worst homicides.It touches on Anthony's erratic behavior after her daughter's birth that...[Read More]

Associated PressOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set a Jan. 22 execution date for a convicted killer from Tulsa County.The court on Monday scheduled the execution date for 31-year-old Darwin Demond Brown, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of Richard Kevin Yost during the robbery of a convenience store.Yost's body was found bound and beaten in the cooler of a QuikTrip store just off Interstate 244 in east Tulsa.Yost's body was discovered by a customer who...[Read More]

Star TelegramFORT WORTH — For two decades, the women around Reginald Perkins have been dying.The mother of a 12-year-old neighbor girl he’d tried to rape. The twin sister of his future wife. The mother of a woman whom he had been dating.All three Cleveland, Ohio, women were strangled in the early 1980s. Perkins was the prime suspect, but police lacked the evidence to charge him. But he couldn’t avoid prosecution in 2000, when he killed his stepmother in Fort Worth.Gertie Perkins, 64, was found...[Read More]

Texas has executed Gregory Wright this evening by lethal injection at the Huntsville Texas Death Chamber. Wrights last meal was: 2 double cheese burgers with everything, 2 baked potatoes with butter, large salad with ranch dressing, 1 pitcher of milk, any desert, and 4 dinner rolls. Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Condemned prisoner Gregory Wright looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a scheduled Thursday evening trip to the Texas death chamber where he faced lethal injection for...[Read More]