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CAIRO - Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change the outcome.
Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted escape.
Record books reveal at least three cases of brothers who conspired to commit crimes and both got the death penalty. But these two stand out because their crimes were separated by more than 600 miles and 25 years.
Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted e...
Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race have filed appeals to the election commission, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change the outcome.
A criminal court on Sunday convicted one of Hosni Mubarak's closest aides of corruption and sentenced him to seven years in prison, Egypt's official news agency reported.
The shortage of the drug used to kill death-row felons is just another reminder of why it is useless to pretend that state execution can ever be made humane.
Rodney Berget, left, is on South Dakota's death row while Roger Berget spent 13 years on Oklahoma's death row until his execution in 2000.
Death penalty decision on accused kidnapper-killer expected in July Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:50 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012 In a Thursday hearing, a Montgomery County judge gave Verna McClain's attorneys a July 1 deadline to turn over mitigating evidence ...
Lawyers for a 31-year-old man who was sentenced to death for murdering a woman and her baby girl in 1999 say they will ask for a retrial, possibly in the fall. Yoshihiro Yasuda, primary lawyer for Takayuki Otsuki, whose death penalty was finalized in March, said in Tokyo Saturday the defense team will gather in August and file a appeal around October. Otsuki committed the murders when he was 18 ...
The prosecutor in a military tribunal has demanded the death penalty for Tunisia's former dictator over his role in the deaths of protesters during the popular uprising that overthrew him a year ago.
Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota’s death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits...
Federal charges that carry a possible death penalty could be filed against a Massachusetts man suspected of killing a woman during a drug deal in Dummerston last summer, federal prosecutors say in court documents.
THE world’s second most-wanted Nazi war criminal, who murdered Jews at the camp where Anne Frank was held, has died peacefully in his bed in Germany at the age of 90.
Joe Matlock escaped the death penalty in the killing of San Jose police Officer John Buck because of the holdout of a lone juror, a 57-year-old soldier of fortune who claimed a past as a legislator, cop, spy and railroad man.
(05-27) 10:46 PDT CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say...
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