Ohio inmate took twice as long to die
639738
The 16 minutes it took Christopher Newton to die once chemicals began flowing into his veins was the longest stretch that any of the state's inmates executed since 1999 has endured, an Associated Press review shows.
161904
NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - A federal judge has declared Tennessee's procedure to execute inmates by lethal injection puts them at risk of a painful death, and canceled next week's scheduled execution of a 52-year-old inmate.
595146
It took just two hours for the jury to give 27-year-old Dion Coleman 45 years to life for the murder of 23-year-old Walter Holley. And, beyond their immediate families, the story of how two poor young black men&#39;s lives were ruined over a row about a ...
565324
Authorities on Thursday charged a Utah inmate with murder in the shooting death of a prison guard who tried to stop him from escaping during a medical appointment.
761503
The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
576407
A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
625670
Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
577741
Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
60596
Officer Rudolph Zurick, who was mentioned in a note left by two inmates who escaped from the Union County Jail in December, was found dead on Wednesday, apparently from suicide.
350708
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A man who once lived in South Carolina and still has family in the state apparently became the second American hostage executed in Iraq in as many days on Tuesday.
321117
Death row Scot Kenny Richey is returned to jail in Ohio following a heart scare, it emerges.
27960
Chapman went before the parole board at Attica State Prison, in Buffalo, New York today but was once again denied his freedom. Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for the murder of John
712541
An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
590800
A man is charged with murder and attempted murder after one man died and another was injured in an attack.
498639
Few people understand the criminal justice system like Wendell Poole. He spent 21 years, four months, 16 days and three hours in prison for assault with the intent to kill two people during an argument. He arrived home middle-aged and paranoid, flinching at the sound of passing cars. He needed a...
203405
HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
105253
Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is back in prison after undergoing surgery for a double hernia, his attorney said Monday.