Tag: Capital punishment
South Carolina Killer Chooses Firing Squad for Execution
South Carolina Inmate Chooses Firing Squad for ExecutionSouth Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has made a controversial decision that has garnered nationwide attention. Scheduled to...
Richard Lee Tabler Executed for Texas Double Killing in Dispute
Richard Lee Tabler, a Texas man responsible for a double killing involving his strip club manager and another man, was executed in a state...
Texas Executes Man Convicted in 2011 Murder of Arlington Pastor
The state of Texas carried out the execution of Steven Lawayne Nelson, a 37-year-old man convicted of the 2011 murder of Arlington pastor Clint...
Lawyers Seek Ban on Death Penalty in Idaho Murders Case; Victim’s Mother Calls for...
Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, have requested that the death penalty be removed...
Robert Roberson Death Penalty Case Updates: Law Enforcement and Prosecutors’ Shifting Stances
Robert Roberson, a death row inmate in Texas, was scheduled to be executed for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002....
Texas Supreme Court Halts Execution in Controversial Shaken Baby Syndrome Case
The Texas Supreme Court recently made a decision to pause the execution of Robert Roberson, a man who had been found guilty of murdering...
Man Sentenced to Execution for Daughter’s Death in Controversial Shaken Baby Case
Advocates were desperately trying to save the life of Robert Roberson, a Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki...
Texas Man Executed for 1997 Killing of Female Jogger Despite Claims of Intellectual Disability
Arthur Lee Burton, a 54-year-old Texas man, was executed for the 1997 killing of Nancy Adleman, a 48-year-old mother of three who was jogging...
Ohio Man Spared Death Penalty After Pleading Guilty to Killing 3 Sons
An Ohio man named Chad Doerman avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to three counts of aggravated murder for killing his three young...