Here you will find articles about cases without their own page, as well as articles on the Death Penalty in general.
Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on 20 May. He was
sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Richard Drummond in 1994.
On 23 August 1994, Richard Drummond stopped to help three men whose car
had broken down just outside Kingdom City, Missouri. The three men, Allen
Nicklasson, Tim DeGraffenreid and Dennis Skillicorn, had earlier burgled a
house, and after they got into Richard Drummond's car, Allen Nicklasson pulled a
gun on him. At gunpoint, Drummond drove his car to a secluded rural area, at
which point Nicklasson led him into a field and shot him twice in the head. The
body was found eight days later.
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A Dublin mother last night made an emotional plea for authorities to bring home her pregnant daughter who could face the death penalty in Laos.
Samantha Orobator’s heartbroken mother Jane wept as she appealed to have her four daughters reunited.
The 20-year-old Briton faces death by firing squad if convicted of drug smuggling. Her trial starts today.
Former primary schoolteacher wants retrial after conviction for taking part in murder
A British woman on death row in Texas made a final bid this week to avoid
execution and have her case re-tried. Her family and campaigners claim
that she was not properly represented at her original trial and that she
is innocent of the murder for which she was convicted.
Staggering expense of death penalty spurs states to consider abolishing it
Associated Press
After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty might be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong:
Money.
This morning I watched as lethal drugs flowed into the veins of a man.
Steve Henley was a murderer, or at least that's what the courts decided when they convicted him of shooting an elderly farm couple and burning down the house with their bodies inside. He lived under a death sentence for 23 years.
"I'm an innocent man."