A rapist who was on parole when prosecutors say he murdered a neighbor because he wanted the man's Harley Davidson motorcycle was hoping for a last-minute reprieve Wednesday, hours before his scheduled execution. full story ![]()
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas inmate Rickey Lewis is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday for murdering a man in 1990 and then raping the dead man's fiancée.
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AUSTIN, Texas/TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Texas and Florida are scheduled to execute convicted killers on Wednesday, one of whom murdered an East Texas man at the end of a deadly six-month crime spree that the killer described in court as "a whole lot of fun."
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Thursday is scheduled to execute a man convicted of murder after he and an accomplice robbed an East Texas convenience store in 2002, kidnapping a male customer who was later shot to death and two women who worked there.
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By Karen Brooks and Bill Cotterell AUSTIN, Texas/TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Texas and Florida are scheduled to execute convicted killers on Wednesday, one of whom murdered an East Texas man at the end of a deadly six-month crime spree that the killer described in court as "a whole lot of fun." Elroy Chester, who is due to be put to death in Texas, admitted killing five...
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A Sangamon County jury Friday convicted Kenneth L. Bell of stabbing his neighbor to death during a burglary in 2010.
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AUSTIN, Tex (Reuters) - Texas executed a convicted murderer, Rickey Lewis, on Tuesday who killed a man in 1990 and then raped the dead man's fiancée, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
reuters.com (2 months and 12 days ago)
Oklahoma is set to execute a man convicted in a 1999 rampage that left three people dead in three states, including a suburban Tulsa woman.Click to Continue »
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SANTA ANA – An Anaheim man faces a life term in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted Tuesday of murdering a Garden Grove man by stabbing him during a dispute over a drug deal, prosecutors said. Johnathan Allen Kincaid,...
ocregister.com (3 months and 22 days ago)
A Saginaw, Michigan, jury convicted a 21-year-old Michigan man on Wednesday of murdering and torturing his 28-year-old neighbor. Lashon T. Hollman was arrested on charges of dropping a television set on Cassandra Nelson and then stabbing her 54 times on Feb. 1, 2012, in her apartment at 923 N. Harrison on Saginaw's West Side, MLive.com reported.
ibtimes.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
David Pierce is 2½ years into his 4-year prison sentence for rape. If he were to express remorse at an upcoming parole hearing, he would likely get out sooner.
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