Texas inmate executed for couple's murder
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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JARRATT, Va.  - An alcoholic, brain-damaged man  who stabbed an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors  in 1996 was executed in Virginia on Thursday night.
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An ex-con who co-authored a book about life in prison was convicted Friday of killing his live-in girlfriend and raping a teenager.
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A COUPLE arrested on suspicion of murdering the
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A Texas man who confessed to murder  after seeing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was  sentenced to 75 years in prison on Friday night for strangling  his girlfriend to death.
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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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The killers of a City lawyer are jailed as his fiancee speaks of having her "heart ripped out" by his murder.
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The husband of former state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a man on Thursday who confessed to killing three people in a 1999 robbery, including two who were injected with cleaning fluid before they were stabbed to death.
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Convicted killer Demarco McCullum, who grew up in Seminary, Miss., was executed Tuesday for the abduction, robbery, beating and fatal shooting of a Houston man 10 years ago.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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Two men convicted of rape by a court in Pakistan's southern Punjab province are executed.
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Hours before she was to have been executed for the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared on Wednesday when Gov.
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A man convicted of murdering the manager of a topless bar 27 years ago was executed by injection Wednesday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals.
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A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.