Death Penalty News

Death row inmate will get life, court rules
By The Associated Press
"The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the death sentence of Roderick Eskridge and ordered the Grenada County Circuit Court to re-sentence him to life in prison without parole."

Execution is set for Charlotte man
By Sharif Durhams
"The state set execution dates for three men Thursday, including a convicted killer who received Mecklenburg County's first death verdict for killing a spouse."

High court says execute Crips founder
By David Kravets, The Associated Press
"SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court refused to take the case of California death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang whose later work for peace won him Nobel Peace Prize nominations."

Death row pleas denied
By Howard Mintz
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away the last-ditch appeals of two California death row inmates, setting the stage for what could be the busiest year in San Quentin's execution chamber in the modern death penalty era."

Execution date set for convicted killer
By Sean O'Sullivan
"A judge has set a date for convicted killer Brian D. Steckel to die. Superior Court Judge William C. Carpenter Jr. signed an order last week setting Nov. 4 as the day Steckel, 36, will die by lethal injection at the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna."

Iowan gets death penalty
By the Associated Press
"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Former drug dealer Dustin Honken was sentenced Tuesday to die by lethal injection, becoming the first person to be given a death sentence in Iowa in more than 40 years."