Search For Serial Killer Victim's Remains Winds Down Oct 10, 2008
Although he was never charged with killing Madison, he confessed to the crime shortly before he hanged himself with a television cord while on death row at San Quentin. Flores said Edwards' confession in the Madison case was not followed up in 1970, but the reasons may never be known because the records of that investigation have not been located by LAPD archivists. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Jury finds Damm guilty of murder Oct 10, 2008
He is innocent," Richards said.Richards said Burt's account can't be believed because of the deal he struck with prosecutors to avoid death row. He said it was like putting a gun to someone's head and saying do what we want or we'll pull the trigger."What he's telling you is a lie. He's covering up for what really happened," Richards said.Jurors will be back Tuesday morning following the Columbus Day holiday to begin the next phase of the case.Contact Jeff Reinitz at (319) 291-1578 or . More... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Letters to the editor (Oct. 9) Oct 10, 2008
scott burress wrote on Oct 9, 2008 12:36 PM:" jdr - I think she also forgot something like: No to appeals for death row inmates. ". Barefoot wrote on Oct 9, 2008 12:43 PM:" Sally left out the goose stepping midnight torch parades. ". (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
MUSIC NOTES: David Allan Coe at Crazy Horse Saloon Oct 10, 2008
He did have the jail thing, even if his claim to being on Death Row didn't exactly ring true. And he's never been shy about self-promotion and praise. (Florida Times-Union)
Summer Associates Tell Firms: Turn Up the Heat Oct 10, 2008
Even so, many of this year's summer interns reported that their most memorable experiences involved actual work: visiting a pro bono client on death row, helping to draft a cert petition for the U.S. Supreme Court, joining in on a client pitch for a high-level energy transaction, preparing Securities and Exchange Commission documents -- or just getting good feedback for their efforts. "I helped to draft a motion for a pending case and the associate commented that I was an excellent writer,"... (Law.com)
Double bunking expected at prison Oct 8, 2008
In California, some inmates in maximum security prisons are double-celled, although not those on death row, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "There have been instances where two cellmates got into fights and unfortunately we had some in-cell homicides as well," she said. (Boston Globe)
Nigeria: Yar'Adua Nominates 11 Envoys Oct 8, 2008
The Senate will also debate on a motion proposed by Senator Uche Chukwumerije, who alerted it on the plight of over fifty Nigerians now on death row in Indonesia. Chukwumerije came under Order 42 of Senate Standing Rules, saying the matter in the motion is of urgent national importance. (allAfrica.com)
Rescued stray dogs get a second chance at life Oct 7, 2008
Charlie was picked up by a control officer in Christian County, and according to Nugent, was saved from the shelter s death row list. One of the officials at the shelter, who knew Nugent s taste in dogs, called her immediately about the animal. (Leitchfield Grayson County, KY)
Top court rejects Abu-Jamal appeal for trial Oct 7, 2008
The death row inmate was convicted in the 1981 killing of a police officer ... WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Pak president can pardon Sarabjit: Pak govt Oct 7, 2008
He has been on death row since 1990 on terror charges. There seems to be fresh hope now for the 42-year-old prisoner on the death row. (IBNLive.com)
Court meets on Davis execution appeal Friday Oct 7, 2008
Davis sits on death row for the Aug. 19, 1989, murder of Mark Allen MacPhail, a 27-year-old officer shot dead after he responded to the wails of a homeless man being pistol whipped in a Burger King parking lot. The father of two did not have time to draw his gun before being shot three times. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Supreme Court won't hear death row appeal Oct 7, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Mississippi death row inmate Thomas E. Loden Jr.. The Mississippi Supreme Court in 2007 rejected Lodens claims that he relied on faulty advice from his attorney when he pleaded guilty to capital murder and was unexpectedly sentenced to death. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Freeway Ramps Dug Up In Search For Serial Killer Victim's Remains Oct 7, 2008
Although he was never charged with killing Roger Madison, he confessed to the crime shortly before he hanged himself with a television cord while on death row at San Quentin. Flores said Edwards' confession in the Madison case was not followed up in 1970, but the reasons may never be known because the records of that investigation have not been located by LAPD archivists. (NBC4.tv, CA)
12 Texas Death Row Inmates Lose Supreme Court Appeals Oct 7, 2008
(October 6, 2008)--A dozen Texas death row inmates lost appeals Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court, moving them closer to execution ... Also losing Monday was Chelsea Richardson, a 24-year-old who is among 10 women on death row in Gatesville. (KWTX.com, TX)
Tupac Producer Johnny 'J' Jackson Dead At 39 Oct 7, 2008
"Tupac's real life was like a movie to me, and Johnny J was a big part of the score and soundtrack to that movie," L.A. lyricist and former Death Row artist Crooked I told MTV News. "The classic songs he produced for 'Pac will be with us forever us being the West Coast and the whole world. Real talk!". (VHI.com -- Music News)
Pak Law Minister to meet Indian prisoner Sarabjit Oct 6, 2008
RAISED HOPE: Sarabjit is on a death row, awaiting a decision on his plea for clemency ... The Indian government had made a request for grant of clemency to the Indian who is on the death row, and is languishing in Pakistani jails on charges of spying. (IBNLive.com)
Tobacco, whales await as US Supreme Court gets back to work Oct 6, 2008
The nine justices -- one of them a woman and one an African-American -- have yet to say if they will consider demands for a new trial for death-row inmate and black activist Mumia Abu Jamal, a symbol for global opponents of capital punishment, and Troy Davis, another African-American on death row in Georgia who claims his innocence. Yahoo. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Pak Law Minister meets Sarabjit Oct 6, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Law Minister Farooq Naek on Monday met Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh at the Lahore's Kot Lakhpath Jail to review his case following the Indian government's appeal for clemency for him. Sarabjit, 42, has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb attacks that killed 14 people in Punjab province in 1990. (India Times, India)
Prosecution wrapping up case against Damm Oct 5, 2008
Burt, who took the stand as part of a deal with prosecutors that saved him from death row, denied any struggle with Hill. Burt told jurors he drove the girl to Illinois in a borrowed Cadillac and began hitting her in the head with a metal hammer in a surprise attack when he pulled off the road in a rural area. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
U.N. Resolution Helping to Spread Islamic Law? Oct 4, 2008
-- An Afghan student is on death row for downloading an article about the role of women in Islam, FOXNews. com also reported. (Fox News)
Texas Death Row Inmate May Get New Trial Oct 4, 2008
(October 3, 2008)--Prosecutors and defense attorneys filed documents Thursday seeking for a new trial for death row inmate Michael Toney, claiming the state's lead prosecutor improperly withheld evidence in Toneys 1999 trial. Toney was sentenced to death in the killings of three people in the bombing of a mobile home near Lake Worth in 1985. (KWTX.com, TX)
Former Tribune editor Lipinski to lead civic engagement Oct 3, 2008
Under Lipinski s editorial stewardship, the Chicago Tribune became a leader in public service, with Pulitzer Prize-winning projects that freed innocent prisoners from death row, helped revitalize the South Side lakefront and uncovered product defects that endangered children. A 30-year resident of the city, Lipinski will oversee a broad portfolio that includes the University s engagement in Chicago Public Schools, public safety and the city s bid for the 2016 Olympics. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Row after top policeman resigns Oct 3, 2008
Page last updated at 04:48 GMT, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:48 UK. Sir Ian Blair announced he was quitting following a meeting with Boris Johnson. (BBC News)
Judge rejects more DNA testing in death row case Oct 3, 2008
(AP) - A judge has rejected more specific DNA testing in the case of a death row inmate who says a closer examination of the evidence could free him. Jefferson Circuit Court Judge James Shake said in a ruling Thursday that state law doesn't allow for the type of testing requested by Brian Keith Moore, so it cannot be ordered by the court. (FOX19.com, OH)
Justice for Cassie Oct 3, 2008
The man convicted of the crime has been on death row longer then any previous Washington state inmate. More News. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Increase in inmates opens door to private prisons Oct 3, 2008
Maximum-security prisoners, including those on death row, and others with mental illness or serious health problems are ineligible. Inmates at women s prisons, which are not as crowded as male institutions, are not sent out of state. (Yahoo News -- Prison Issues)
An option offense showed up Oct 3, 2008
You went to Kyle Field or strolled to your TV set like an inmate on Death Row about to take the final walk. After the disasters of the first 3 weeks, you figured we ain't seen nuthin' yet. (ArmySports.com)
Plano: Who is Ashley Estell’s killer? Oct 3, 2008
The relief removed Blair from Death Row to general population in an East Texas prison. All the work we have done on this case since 1998 has paid off, said Phillip Wischkaemper, a Lubbock defense attorney who worked on Blair s appeal. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
This Eid, a sweet taste of harmony in jail Oct 3, 2008
In this high security area of the prison, some of the inmates are on death row. Thursday was also observed as Prisoners Day and birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri. (Times of India)
Bali bombers execution by year end Oct 3, 2008
JAKARTA: Three Indonesian Islamists on death row over the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200 people will be executed by the end of the year, a report said on Friday. No final date has been set for the execution but prosecutors have received key paperwork allowing it to go ahead, attorney general's office spokesman Jasman Panjaitan was quoted as saying by news website Detikcom. (India Times, India)
Fed. judge in Va. rejects sniper Muhammad's appeal Sep 25, 2008
Muhammad, now on death row in Virginia, claimed numerous errors at his 2003 trial. But U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady in Alexandria, Va. (Anchorage Daily News)
Judge rejects D.C. sniper appeal Sep 25, 2008
John Allen Muhammad, on death row, claimed numerous errors at 2003 trial ... Muhammad, now on death row in Virginia, claimed numerous errors at his 2003 trial. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Georgia officer's family angered by execution delay Sep 25, 2008
But seven of the nine key witnesses who helped put Davis on death row have since recanted their statements. Three other people have said one of the witnesses who testified at Davis trial later confessed to killing the officer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Inmates health, taxpayers, and health care Sep 25, 2008
marzo2008 wrote on Sep 25, 2008 7:40 AM:" the inmates so not get any health care. the people in the general public should get free health care. who cares if they die in jail. at least the would be one person that we are wasting money on just to keep them alive. we see now that death row doesn't work. it's been more than 25 years for the next one to die. but the hold up isn't going to come. we need to be more like it is in texas. at least within the three month period of "taking care of... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Ga. cop killer gets last-minute execution reprieve Sep 24, 2008
Family and advocates of 39-year-old Troy Davis have long urged he deserves a new trial as seven of the nine witnesses who helped put him on death row have recanted their testimony. His supporters erupted into cheers and tears when the stay was announced at about 5:20 p.m. EDT.. (Anchorage Daily News)
Davis execution put off Sep 24, 2008
Davis, 39, sits on death row for the Aug. 19, 1989, killing of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail. He was scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m.. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Ga. Inmate Receives Stay of Execution Sep 24, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a last-minute, temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Georgia whose case has gained national attention. This photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Troy Davis ... This photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Troy Davis. (ABC News)
Death-row inmate gains big-name support Sep 23, 2008
In 1991, their testimony helped send the Georgia man to death row. However, in the years since, seven of the nine have recanted their testimony and his attorneys claim others say another man pulled the trigger. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Death row inmate isn't getting justice in Georgia Sep 23, 2008
Death row inmate isn t getting justice in Georgia ... Troy is on Georgia s death row, and is scheduled to be executed for a murder he has always said he did not commit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
* World News Quick Take Sep 23, 2008
Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis, who faces lethal injection today for the murder of a Savannah police officer, prayed with civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton on Saturday night. Sharpton said Davis, 39, was surprisingly upbeat. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Fugitive Arrested In Texas After 23 Years On The Run Sep 23, 2008
Texas High School Football Polls. Between the credit crisis, bankruptcies, billion dollar buyouts and billion dollar buyouts, the economy has emerged as issue No. 1 in the presidential race. (KWTX.com, TX)
Man Faces Execution For Killing 2 Young Girls Sep 23, 2008
There are 387 men and one woman on Florida's death row and Crist says he wants to begin executing those who committed the most heinous crimes after they complete their appeals ... In his 15 years on death row, Henyard only had one visitor ... Some of the people who helped put Davis on Georgia's death row are trying to clear his name. (News4Jax.com, FL)
Justices Consider Rights Issues Sep 22, 2008
Move aside, Microsoft v. AT & T, antitrust litigants, corporate wrongdoers, environmental activists and death row inmates looking for one last appeal. Yesterday at the Supreme Court was a day for rebels from the old frontier. (Yahoo News -- Supreme Court)
Cuba to commute death sentences Sep 22, 2008
Three people charged with terrorism will stay on death row for the time being. Their cases will be reviewed. (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
Toddler Stabbed To Death In Apartment Fight Sep 22, 2008
Between the credit crisis, bankruptcies, billion dollar buyouts and billion dollar buyouts, the economy has emerged as issue No. 1 in the presidential race. Which candidate do you think will do the best job reviving the U.S. economy. (KWTX.com, TX)
Sharpton prays with Davis Sep 21, 2008
New York civil rights activist Al Sharpton said condemned cop killer Troy Anthony Davis was surprisingly upbeat Saturday night after the two prayed together on Georgia s death row. He was not overly optimistic or pessimistic, said the Rev. Sharpton, who visited Davis on death row at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at the request of Davis family. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Gutfeld: Hollywood to Blame for Wall St. Trouble Sep 20, 2008
That killer on death row is more Christ-like than Christ and the cop who put him there is Satan. Serial killers are played by Brad Pitt and hookers by Julia Roberts. (Fox News)
Farm responds to pig abuse video Sep 20, 2008
taxpayer wrote on Sep 19, 2008 4:55 PM:" This is an important issue reader 54 because lets not for get that people that will treat animals this way will also treat people this way. Want one of these wonderful people raising a grandchild or babysitting a child of yours or afamily members? This would be like beating and kicking a prisoner on death row. Oh well hes just going to be dead soon anyway. Its the mind set reader 54. Until they are your meal they are intelligent and they are alive. ". If... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Frey close to losing Clovis house Sep 19, 2008
Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn child on Christmas Eve 2002 and now sits on death row in San Quentin. Frey later wrote a book about her role in the trial. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Rights groups blast Iran's teen executions Sep 18, 2008
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian rights groups and lawyers have stepped up a campaign against the executions of juvenile offenders, in an effort to save the lives of about 120 people convicted as minors who are now on death row, one of the lawyers behind the push said Wednesday. Attorney Mohammad Mostafaei said five of the 120 are facing imminent execution for crimes they were convicted of committing as minors. (MSNBC -- International)
Extremists are scary Sep 18, 2008
Ron Murray Sr wrote on Sep 13, 2008 2:43 PM:" Gee, Bonnie, was the public hanging of people in this country by Christian fundamentalist a show of sanity? How come we have so many people on death row if the death penalty is such a deterent to violent crime? Was it the Christian thing to do to drop bombs in the middle of the night on men, women, and children who never did anything to us but lived under the dictatorship of a madman we put in power?Somehow I think the ideals of the American... (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
Texas Executes Convicted Killer Sep 18, 2008
(September 17, 2008)Texas executed death row inmate William Murray, 39, Wednesday evening for the rape and strangulation of a 93-year old Kaufman County woman during a break-in that netted him $10 in change. The victim was strangled with an ace bandage, which was tied around her neck and mouth and also suffered blunt force injuries. (KWTX.com, TX)
Killer of woman in $10 burglary executed Sep 18, 2008
I ve been praying every day that the good Lord will let me out, he said recently from death row ... In a recent death row interview with The Associated Press, Murray acknowledged the slaying, blaming it on a drug problem ... He d hoped to steal a television but it was too heavy for the 5-foot-3 Murray, known on death row as Scooter. (KHOU.com, TX)
Georgia executes man who killed wife Sep 17, 2008
Man who murdered wife for insurance money on death row for 33 years ... ATLANTA - A man on death row for 33 years has been executed in Georgia for murdering his wife in 1974. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Ohio killer: Weight gain isn't to avoid execution Sep 17, 2008
Instead, Richard Cooey said in a death row interview that his execution cannot be carried out humanely under current state procedures because his veins are hard to reach ... Cooey, who would not discuss his prison life or his family, has been on death row since 1986. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Death row inmate executed Sep 17, 2008
Adlerman, pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday, has been on death row almost 35 years longer than any of the 109 death row inmates in Georgia. He was convicted of the 1974 Chatham County murder of wife Barbara Alderman for $10,000 in insurance money. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Man executed for 1974 murder Sep 17, 2008
33-year wait on death row over ... JACKSON - A man who had been on Georgia's death row for 33 years was executed Tuesday for killing his wife in 1974. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Legal experts slam Texas judge-prosecutor link Sep 17, 2008
Lawyers for death row inmate Charles Dean Hood sought a stay of execution in the nation's busiest death penalty state, arguing former Judge Verla Sue Holland was biased because of her relationship with ex-Collin County District Attorney Thomas O'Connell ... Besides Hood, there are four other death row inmates convicted in Collin County during the overlapping tenures of O'Connell and Holland. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Nate Dogg In Stable Condition After Second Stroke: Report Sep 17, 2008
Former Death Row recording artist hospitalized after suffering two strokes in one year ... Details were sketchy at press time, but according to multiple online reports, including TMZ, former Death Row recording artist suffered a stroke. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Death row inmate's sister talks of abuse Sep 16, 2008
News - newsjournalonline. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Executions kill any chance to correct possible injustice Sep 16, 2008
A man, on death row for the 1989 murder of an off-duty policeman in Savannah, is scheduled to die on that date. A heinous crime was committed one that defies understanding. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Execution of Alderman delayed Sep 16, 2008
Alderman filed suit late last week after the parole board declined to allow another clemency hearing to the long-serving member on Georgia s death row ... During Monday s hearing, Joseph Drolet of the state Attorney General s Office said the board has considered reams of documents presented to it by Alderman s lawyers and had a member of its staff interview Alderman on death row in late June. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
"Made of Honor" arrives on DVD Sep 16, 2008
"88 Minutes" Al Pacino stars as a criminal profiler who helped put a serial killer on death row but now has his own rapidly approaching expiration date. The thriller piles on outlandish action as Pacino's forensic psychologist receives a phone call telling him he has 88 minutes to live, prompting a scramble as he races to track down his stalker and unravel a dense mystery. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Death-penalty ruling in judge's hands Sep 15, 2008
Front page news - newsjournalonline. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Faded, but not forgotten Sep 15, 2008
Eubanks is on death row in the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. Comm unity shocked. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
