Both prosecutors and Lucio's attorneys released a statement saying as much Tuesday. The case that has received attention nationwide, including from the likes of Kim Kardashian, Amanda Knox and Texas Republicans. Suppressed evidence, including witness statements and a report by Child Protective Services, would have corroborated Lucio´s defense
Monika Woroniecka, 58, was killed after an Airstream door swung open and she fell out while on a New York road. Friends and officials say she was heading upstate with her family to view Monday's eclipse. Her daughter Helena has now raised concerns over what she has called a 'significant safety oversight' on the Airstream camper
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
Brian Dorsey, convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband, put to
A Missouri death row inmate was executed Tuesday night following denials of two appeals by the U.S. Supreme Court for a pair of 2006 slayings. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Karen Pojmann, communications director for the Missouri Department of Corrections told Fox News Digital in an email. He took a few deep breaths as the drug was injected, then several shallow, quick breaths. At...
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution. Brian Dorsey is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday night. Gov.
The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution
Missouri death row inmate nears execution with appeals before Supreme Court
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution. Brian Dorsey is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday night. Gov.
The fate of a Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago appears to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, with just hours to go before the scheduled execution. Brian Dorsey, 52, is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday night at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Gov. Mike Parson on Monday turned down a clemency request.
A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve findsBlack incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in the US at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the...
A lawsuit challenging Japan’s practice of giving death row inmates just a couple hours notice before execution was dismissed on Monday.