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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 24, 2010

Dealth Penalty Opponent Wins California AG Race

Steve Cooley's senior campaign adviser announced that decision in a media conference call Wednesday morning, saying the candidate lost primarily because of higher Democratic turnout and the more liberal California voters.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2010

Supreme Court Makes Mumia Abu-Jamal Death Sentence Possible

The Supreme Court threw out a 2008 ruling by an appeals court in Philadelphia that had set aside the death sentence of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. The justices ordered the appeals court to revisit the ruling, which had said Abu-Jamal deserved a new hearing.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 24, 2009

Convicted Texas Cop Killer Gets Death Row Reprieve

The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night stopped the scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Kenneth Mosley a day before he was to receive lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a suburban Dallas police officer.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 15, 2009

Texas Police Widow Struggles as Execution of Husband's Killer Nears

Sheila Moore has managed pretty well in the dozen years since her husband, Garland, Texas, police Officer Michael "David" Moore, was shot to death trying to prevent a bank robbery.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 28, 2009

Killer of Phoenix Officer Gets Death Penalty

A Maricopa County Superior Court jury deliberated barely three hours before agreeing to the death penalty for convicted cop killer Donald Delahanty on Wednesday. It might have been a foregone conclusion. Delahanty, 22, was found guilty May 5 of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Phoenix police Officer David Uribe during a traffic stop in May 2005.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 7, 2009

Colorado Senate Votes to Retain Death Penalty

One by one, senators at last revealed their views Wednesday on the complicated and controversial topic of the death penalty with simple ayes and nays during a roll-call vote in the waning hours of the legislative session.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2009

NC Court Could End State Moratorium on Death Penalty

The North Carolina Supreme Court says that the N.C. Medical Board cannot bar doctors from participating in executions.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 6, 2009

Supreme Court Rejects New Trial for Cop Killer Mumia

The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 7, 2009

Cop Killer Asks Mo. Supreme Court for a New Trial

A man who received the death penalty for murdering a Kirkwood, Mo., police officer asked the Missouri Supreme Court today to give him a new trial. Kevin Johnson, now 23, was convicted of first-degree murder in November 2007 for the July 2005 shooting of Kirkwood police Sgt. William McEntee, 43.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 18, 2008

New Hampshire Cop Killer Gets Death Penalty

Michael Addison was sentenced to death this morning for the murder of Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs, making him the first New Hampshire man to face execution in nearly 50 years.

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