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  • Georgia Bars Polygraph For Condemned Man

    September 21, 2011 9:42 AM

    ATLANTA (AP) - A defense attorney says Georgia prison officials have blocked inmate Troy Davis from taking a polygraph test before his scheduled execution. Attorney Stephen Marsh told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Georgia Department of Corrections has denied his request to allow Davis to take a polygraph... more »
  • Justice Secretary: Wilson Execution Still On Hold

    September 16, 2010 3:38 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - The Kentucky Department of Corrections says it does not expect the state Supreme Court to act soon to lift the stay of execution for inmate Gregory Lee Wilson. A judge last week halted the lethal injection that had been scheduled for Thursday evening because of concerns about... more »
  • Friends Remember Murder Victim As Killer Fights Execution Play Video

    September 16, 2010 10:59 AM

    (AP) - Debbie Pooley left Miami for the suburbs of Cincinnati in the mid-1980s looking for a safer place in a smaller city near home. To her family and friends, her kidnapping and murder in 1987 - about two years after she moved home - proved a cruel irony. "She... more »
  • Kentucky Prosecutors Seek To Lift Stay Of Execution

    September 13, 2010 4:41 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - Kentucky prosecutors have asked the state's high court to allow an execution scheduled for Sept. 16 to go forward, saying the condemned inmate has exhausted all of his appeals. In filings Monday afternoon, Assistant Attorney General Heather Fryman said a "substantial miscarriage of justice" will occur if... more »
  • Judge Denies Stay Of September 16 Execution For Gregory Wilson

    September 1, 2010 5:44 PM

    COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky judge has denied two requests to halt the scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of murder and rape, saying the grounds for doing so were too flimsy to support a stay. Kenton Circuit Judge Gregory Bartlett on Wednesday ruled that there's "overwhelming evidence" of... more »
  • Death Row Inmate Asks Judge To Halt September 16 Execution Play Video

    August 31, 2010 11:07 AM

    (AP) - Attorneys for a condemned Kentucky inmate asked a judge Tuesday to halt the man's scheduled Sept. 16 execution, saying he may be mentally retarded and is entitled to DNA testing on the evidence in his case. Gregory Wilson's lawyers filed a motion in Kenton Circuit Court asking that... more »
  • Firing Squad Execution Sobering, But Dramatic

    June 18, 2010 8:33 AM

    By JENNIFER DOBNER Associated Press Writer DRAPER, Utah (AP) - The explosive reports sent a volley of .30-caliber bullets from the five marksmen into the chest of Ronnie Lee Gardner. I was expecting to flinch but didn't as I watched his execution from the witness room. It was so quick... more »
  • Death Row Inmate Baze Asks Governor For Delay In Execution Date

    May 21, 2010 3:31 PM

    LOUISVILLE (AP) - A Kentucky inmate condemned to death for the shootings of a sheriff and deputy has asked the governor to delay setting his execution date as his attorneys prepare for a death warrant to be signed. Attorneys for Ralph S. Baze filed a letter with Gov. Steve Beshear,... more »
  • State Holds First Public Hearing On Executions

    January 29, 2010 8:15 AM

    FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky is set to hold its first public hearing on the method used to execute condemned inmates. The hearing starts at 9 a.m. EST Friday at the state's Transportation Cabinet offices in Frankfort. It comes a month after the Kentucky Supreme Court ordered all executions halted... more »
  • Virginia Governor Denies Clemency For D.C. Sniper

    November 10, 2009 12:03 PM

    Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is set to die by injection Tuesday night at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. His attorneys... more »