http://www.mail.com/subjects/16244-criminal-punishment.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/16244-criminal-punishment.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2073492-arias-trial-turns-to-whether-lives-dies.html PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias will spend the weekend on suicide watch and return to court next week when jurors are expected to consider whether the death penalty should be an option for the former waitress' sentence. Minutes after her conviction for killing a former boyfriend, Arias told a TV station she would "prefer to die sooner than later," complicating ... Fri, 10 May 2013 00:40:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2073492-arias-trial-turns-to-whether-lives-dies.html 2013-05-10T00:40:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2072168-cheers-tears-arias-1st-degree-murder-verdict.html PHOENIX (AP) — The jury has found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. Arias initially denied involvement and later blamed the killing on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said she killed Travis Alexander in self-defense. After a four-month trial that included graphic details of their ... Thu, 09 May 2013 00:55:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2072168-cheers-tears-arias-1st-degree-murder-verdict.html 2013-05-09T00:55:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069994-texas-inmate-executed-fatal-drug-deal-robbery.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed Tuesday evening. In the seconds before being injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, Carroll Joe Parr told his victim's wife she should talk to her brother to learn "the truth abo... Wed, 08 May 2013 00:01:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069994-texas-inmate-executed-fatal-drug-deal-robbery.html 2013-05-08T00:01:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069452-evidence-challenged-miss-court-blocks-execution.html PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students. Manning, who had challenged errors involving evidence analysis, was originally set to receiv... Tue, 07 May 2013 20:01:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2069452-evidence-challenged-miss-court-blocks-execution.html 2013-05-07T20:01:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055364-ohio-executes-man-who-killed-raped-6-month-old.html LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio for the 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend's daughter, Autumn Carter, in Mansfield. Smith had recently ... Thu, 02 May 2013 06:34:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055364-ohio-executes-man-who-killed-raped-6-month-old.html 2013-05-02T06:34:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2057822-papua-guinea-proposes-firing-squad-executions.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Following a number of high-profile killings related to sorcery, Papua New Guinea's government is pushing for the South Pacific nation's first execution and says firing squads would be a humane and inexpensive method. Papua New Guinea's laws allow for the death penalty and about 10 condemned inmates are currently in prison there,... Thu, 02 May 2013 06:03:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2057822-papua-guinea-proposes-firing-squad-executions.html 2013-05-02T06:03:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2045620-man-to-death-texas-store-abduction-slaying.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago. Richard Cobb, 29, didn't deny using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in an East Texas field where two women also were shot and one was raped. He was conv... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:43:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2045620-man-to-death-texas-store-abduction-slaying.html 2013-04-26T01:43:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2032450-arkansas-turns-to-lethal-injection-drug.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — After surrendering its supply of a lethal injection drug to federal agents in 2011, Arkansas turned to a somewhat surprising place to look for another drug: a list from lawyers for several death row inmates. The state Department of Correction told The Associated Press this week that it decided to use phenobarbital after attorneys ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:18:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2032450-arkansas-turns-to-lethal-injection-drug.html 2013-04-19T23:18:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024386-lawyers-arkansas-to-use-untried-execution-drug.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas plans to put prisoners to death with a drug that apparently hasn't been used in a U.S. execution, and lawyers for condemned inmates warn that it could take longer for someone to die from it than from other lethal injection drugs. Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson told The Associated Press on Tuesda... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:00:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024386-lawyers-arkansas-to-use-untried-execution-drug.html 2013-04-17T02:00:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011926-fla-inmate-executed-1980-killing-girl.html STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man who killed a 10-year-old girl he snatched off her bike on her way to school has been executed in Florida. Authorities said 59-year-old Larry Eugene Mann was pronounced dead at 7:19 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Mann kidnapped Elisa Vera Nelson on Nov. 4, 1980, as she headed to sc... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:28:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011926-fla-inmate-executed-1980-killing-girl.html 2013-04-10T23:28:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2009524-texas-executes-man-1990-fatal-shooting-rape.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas convict with a lengthy criminal history was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a man and raping the slain man's fiancee during a home break-in more than 22 years ago. Rickey Lynn Lewis already had been in and out of prison five times in less than seven years when he was arrested three days after the killing of 4... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:45:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2009524-texas-executes-man-1990-fatal-shooting-rape.html 2013-04-10T00:45:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2000228-gang-member-arrested-corrections-killing-probe.html DENVER (AP) — A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing. James Lohr, who has the words "Hard" and "Luck" tattooed where his eyebrows would be, was taken into custody early Fri... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:09:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2000228-gang-member-arrested-corrections-killing-probe.html 2013-04-06T04:09:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990230-colo-prosecutors-seek-execution-theater-attack.html CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — For James Holmes, "justice is death," prosecutors said Monday in announcing they will seek his execution if he is convicted in the Colorado movie theater attack that killed 12 people. The decision — disclosed in court just days after prosecutors publicly rejected Holmes' offer to plead guilty if they took the death penalty off the... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:59:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1990230-colo-prosecutors-seek-execution-theater-attack.html 2013-04-01T21:59:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1983988-ex-prosecutor-death-penalty-decision-wrenching.html DENVER (AP) — James Holmes is willing to spend the rest of his life in prison if it means there's no chance he'll be executed. Now prosecutors have to decide whether that's a deal they're willing to make with the former graduate student accused in last summer's Colorado movie theater massacre. For former prosecutor Bob Gallagher, an earlier case involved ... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:21:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1983988-ex-prosecutor-death-penalty-decision-wrenching.html 2013-03-28T08:21:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1956670-md-lawmakers-vote-to-repeal-death-penalty.html ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers approved a measure abolishing the death penalty on Friday and sent the bill to Gov. Martin O'Malley, who has long supported banning capital punishment. The House of Delegates voted 82-56 for legislation already approved by the Senate. Eighty Democrats and two Republicans voted for the bill, which needed 71 votes to... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1956670-md-lawmakers-vote-to-repeal-death-penalty.html 2013-03-15T22:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1947942-china-long-hated-labor-re-education-camps.html BEIJING (AP) — All it took was a handwritten note from police to send Zhao Meifu to a labor camp for a year in China's arid northwest. The farmer had been seeking redress for decades over a land grab by village officials. Tired of her complaints, police saw the labor camp as a quick way to get rid of her. "They did not like my mother, so they locked her u... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:41:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1947942-china-long-hated-labor-re-education-camps.html 2013-03-12T05:41:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1935746-ohio-executes-man-who-fatally-shot-security-guard.html LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio executed a man Wednesday who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard in 1994 at the end of a multistate crime rampage as witnesses of a second slaying victim of that rampage looked on intently. Frederick Treesh received a single powerful dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. by Donald Morgan, warde... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:03:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1935746-ohio-executes-man-who-fatally-shot-security-guard.html 2013-03-06T20:03:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1931058-7-saudis-appeal-help-to-executions.html CAIRO (AP) — Speaking over a smuggled cellphone from his prison cell, one of seven Saudis set to be put to death Tuesday by crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery appealed for help to stop the executions. Nasser al-Qahtani told The Associated Press from Abha General prison Monday that he was arrested as part of 23-member ring that stole from jewel... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:08:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1931058-7-saudis-appeal-help-to-executions.html 2013-03-04T22:08:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1909950-indias-secret-executions-raise-concerns.html NEW DELHI (AP) — For 11 years the family of a convicted terrorist waited and wondered about his fate as he sat on death row. Two weeks ago they found out — from television. Mohammad Afzal Guru had been hanged in secrecy in a faraway jail in New Delhi. A government letter informing them of the imminent hanging arrived at their home in Kashmir two days after he was dead. ... Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:26:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1909950-indias-secret-executions-raise-concerns.html 2013-02-23T11:26:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907536-ga-executes-man-who-killed-college-students.html JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A 38-year-old inmate who was convicted of killing two college students after confessing to his FBI agent father was executed in Georgia on Thursday, apologizing to the families of both victims before being injected at a state prison. Andrew Allen Cook was pronounced dead at 11:22 p.m., about 14 minutes after he was injected with the se... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:51:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907536-ga-executes-man-who-killed-college-students.html 2013-02-22T08:51:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907280-texas-executes-man-who-lit-ex-girlfriend-fire.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal. Carl Blue, 48, was condemned to die for attacking Carmen Richards-Sanders at her apartment in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston, in Sep... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:15:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1907280-texas-executes-man-who-lit-ex-girlfriend-fire.html 2013-02-22T02:15:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903188-zimbabwe-prisons-to-review-death-sentences.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe prison officials said Wednesday that they are not in a hurry to engage the services of a newly-appointed hangman to execute the 77 inmates on death row and will review their sentences. Prison authorities want to give prisoners facing execution a "chance to live," official Huggins Machingauta said. He said all death sentenc... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:38:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903188-zimbabwe-prisons-to-review-death-sentences.html 2013-02-20T16:38:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1902140-georgia-execution-halted-minute.html JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The execution of a Georgia man who killed a fellow prisoner in 1990 was halted Tuesday at the last minute so courts could consider claims that he's mentally disabled and other issues. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted its stay of execution as 52-year-old Warren Lee Hill was being prepared for lethal injection. In a 2-1 dec... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:55:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1902140-georgia-execution-halted-minute.html 2013-02-20T01:55:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1901844-colorado-execution-appeal-rejected.html DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge can schedule the state's first execution in 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from an inmate who killed four people at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993. The high court's rejection ends Nathan Dunlap's guaranteed appeals and sends the case back to Colorado's 18th Judicial District, where ... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:31:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1901844-colorado-execution-appeal-rejected.html 2013-02-19T22:31:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1896110-bangladeshis-demand-death-war-crimes-convict.html DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — For many in Bangladesh, the "V'' for victory sign was more than they could bear. They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings and rapes during their independence war. But there was a smiling Abdul Quader Mollah on Feb. 5 apparently celebrating his life sentence — given in place of an expected death sente... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:09:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1896110-bangladeshis-demand-death-war-crimes-convict.html 2013-02-16T18:09:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1895572-ga-inmates-try-to-block-execution-drug.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Three death row inmates in Georgia are seeking a court order that would prevent the state from using a drug to execute them without a doctor's prescription. The inmates, two of whom are to be executed next week, asked a federal judge in Washington on Friday to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to prevent the use of pentobarbital... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:59:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1895572-ga-inmates-try-to-block-execution-drug.html 2013-02-15T21:59:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1877608-amnesty-fears-executions-zimbabwe.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Amnesty International said Friday it fears Zimbabwe will resume executions after the state media quoted prison officials saying they have found a new hangman following a seven-year search. Since the last executioner retired in 2005, 76 prisoners have been held on Death Row. Prison officials last week said only that the search for a... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1877608-amnesty-fears-executions-zimbabwe.html 2013-02-08T17:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1856796-fort-hood-suspect-faces-execution.html FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage still faces the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation, a judge ruled Wednesday. A trial date was not set for Maj. Nidal Hasan, whose attorneys say he wants to plead guilty to 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1856796-fort-hood-suspect-faces-execution.html 2013-01-30T22:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1852902-texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appeal.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy's punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home therapist could have more ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1852902-texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appeal.html 2013-01-29T20:42:00Z