La. Jury Recommends Death for Murderer
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A jury took just over 90 minutes Thursday night to decide on the death penalty for twice-convicted killer and suspected serial slayer Derrick Todd Lee, rejecting defense claims that he is mentally retarded.
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After three days of deliberations, a jury determined Scott Peterson should be put to death for murdering his pregnant wife.
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Man accused of murdering his wife in rural France eight years ago in order to claim her life insurance is found guilty of involuntary homicide.
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Jurors tried to avoid recommending the death penalty for a man who pleaded guilty to killing the daughter of blues guitarist Elvin Bishop and four others but could not, the jury's foreman said.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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Two people accused of killing a social worker in western Kentucky could face the death penalty if convicted.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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Calling him &quot;the worst kind of monster&quot; and undeserving of sympathy, prosecutor Dave Harris urged jurors Thursday to sentence double-murderer Scott Peterson to death for killing his pregnant wife.
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REDWOOD CITY -- The same dozen jurors who convicted Scott Peterson of killing his wife, Laci, and the fetus she carried will now decide whether to send the killer to San Quentin State Prisonâs death row.
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Jurors hearing Scott Peterson&#39;s double murder case will have two choices should they decide to convict the former fertilizer salesman, one of which would spare him a possible death sentence.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - An elderly man was convicted Wednesday of trying to kill his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, faces a mandatory 25-year prison sentence after a jury took less than an hour to find him guilty of attempted murder and willful injury.
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Calling him "the worst kind of monster" and undeserving of sympathy, a prosecutor urged jurors to sentence Scott Peterson to death for murdering his pregnant wife before the panel began deciding his punishment Thursday.
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Redwood City, California. KAZINFORM quotes CNN -- Laci Peterson&#39;s stepfather said Scott Peterson &quot;got what he deserved&quot; when the jury in his murder trial recommended Monday that he die by lethal injection for killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife.
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Jurors in the trial of a man accused of murdering British backpacker Caroline Stuttle are considering their verdict.
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A convicted murderer's claim that he killed three women in this tiny Louisiana town in the 1980s, part of a sensational tale of dozens of slayings across the country, is creating challenges for the area's top lawman.
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Repelled by Scott Peterson&#39;s seeming lack of sorrow and remorse, a jury decided Monday that he deserves the death penalty for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, almost two years ago to the date.
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A French court is to rule on a couple accused of failing to stop a drunk guest driving home and killing a family.