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Stella community members react to jurors' death penalty recommendation for Chris Collings
Reporter, PhotographerSTELLA, Mo. - Many community members could not attend a two week murder trial held in Rolla miles away from Stella, the village where a young girl lost her life. A jury convicted Chris Collings of first degree murder then recommended he get the death...Tags: Punishment, Justice System, Judges, Prosecution, Trials
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Inside the Courtroom: Alberta Comstock Takes Stand, Sister Offers Alibi in Day Three of Testimony in the Rolland Comstock Wrongful Death Civil Trial
Reporter, PhotographerScroll down to see the latest updates in bold print from inside the courtroom starting at 8:45 Thursday morning. An ex-wife at the center of a rare wrongful death trial could testify as early as today. Just how many questions she will answer without...Tags: Weaponry, Minority Groups, Assault, Defense, Drug Use
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Man found guilty in 2006 killing of Burger King manager
Twenty-seven years after his conviction for killing a pregnant woman and her three children in Chicago was overturned on appeal, James Ealy is once again facing a life sentence for murder. A Lake County jury found Ealy guilty Friday in the 2006...Tags: Burger King, Lindenhurst (Lake, Illinois), Punishment, Justice System, Prisons
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Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused
ReutersPHOENIX (Reuters) - The foreman of an Arizona jury that deadlocked over whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for murdering her ex-boyfriend believes she was mentally abused, but said on Friday that had not been enough to excuse her crime. Arias, a...Tags: The Arizona Republic, NBC (tv network), Good Morning America (tv program), Judges, Prosecution
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Jury in Arias case gives up after no consensus
PHOENIX (AP) — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing...
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James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...Tags: John Hickenlooper, Prosecution, Psychiatrists, Mental Illness, Murder
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Jury deadlocks again on life term or death for Jodi Arias
PHOENIX—The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her one-time...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Punishment, Witnesses, Prosecution, Prisons
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Arias jury remains deadlocked over death sentence
ReutersPHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias feels betrayed by an Arizona jury that found her guilty of murdering her ex-boyfriend, according to an interview aired on Wednesday shortly before that same jury became deadlocked over whether to sentence...Tags: ABC (tv network), The Arizona Republic, Punishment, Good Morning America (tv program), Justice System
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Lawyers in Colorado shooting case to challenge insanity defense law
ReutersDENVER (Reuters) - Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid the death penalty for their...Tags: Shootings, Prosecution, Judges, Murder, Mental Health
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Arizona jury resumes weighing death penalty in Arias murder case
ReutersBy Tim Gaynor PHOENIX, May 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona jury, weighing whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death or life in prison for the murder of an ex-boyfriend five years ago, resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after the panel said it was...Tags: Punishment, Justice System, Lawyers, Judges, Prisons
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Colorado governor grants reprieve to quadruple killer on death row
ReutersDENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve on Wednesday to the state's longest-serving death row inmate, ordering his execution blocked indefinitely in a move that infuriated prosecutors and victims' families. "It is a...Tags: Government, Behavioral Conditions, Elections, Executive Branch, John Hickenlooper
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Arias jury deadlocked but must continue
PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial said Wednesday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to instruct...
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