Judge: 'Railroad Killer' to be executed
5019
A judge ruled Wednesday that serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, who gained notoriety as the &quot;Railroad Killer&quot; linked to at least 15 murders across the country, is mentally competent to be executed next week for the 1998 rape-slaying of a Texas doctor.
261100
A man convicted of murdering three railroad employees in 1978 and suspected in the deaths of four others has died of cancer in prison.
608488
A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
356016
An anonymous jury will hear the case of six men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
383766
Derrick Todd Lee got a life sentence for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Now the man authorities say is a serial killer faces another trial that could put him on death row.
137751
A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
12991
A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
401917
A confessed serial killer set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years urged a federal judge Friday to dismiss efforts by the inmate's father and a civil liberties group to spare his life.
444006
A federal judge Monday postponed the execution of a serial killer who had tried to end his appeals and was set to become the first person put to death in New England in nearly 45 years.
387282
Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night.
594484
And the question before the US Supreme Court today in a case from Missouri is whether, like mentally retarded killers, young killers should be spared execution under the Constitution&#39;s ban against &quot;cruel and unusual punishment.
62685
Los Angeles judge may instruct jury to go back and try to reach verdict on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
315754
By Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Missouri prison officials have until Oct. 27 to submit a revised protocol for putting condemned inmates to death, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.   U.S.
363694
A man who murdered his teenage fiancee must serve a minimum of 12 years in jail, a judge says,.
231969
A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
609905
A judge ruled Tuesday that a confessed serial killer &#151; set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years &#151; is mentally competent and can forgo further appeals of his death sentence.
117498
A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.