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He gave a nod and a wink before he sat down in the electric chair, then he uttered two statements as contradictory as the man himself: a Gaelic expletive and "God bless." Robert Gleason Jr. was playful and vicious, a protector and a predator...I
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Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old widow has become the state's first inmate executed using a new drug cocktail. Thirty-year-old Jerry Terrell Jackson was executed by lethal injection at 9:14 p.m...
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Community organizer Attila Nagy, who took the photos, told FoxNews.com that he was concerned it might encourage kids to use guns in the future. "My main concern is for kids who handle these things. They're fascinated by them, and it makes them
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The latest US business and financial news as well as issues and events Sample A fingerprint and DNA from hair implicated Jackson and he was found guilty. The execution will take place at the Greensville Correctional Center, Reuters reported, which is
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Virginia authorities released an inmate Monday who served 27 years for crimes they now think he did not commit. Thomas Haynesworth walked out of Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt on his 46th birthday, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch reported.
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At least 52 women are now on death row in U.S. prisons, after the execution of a mentally retarded in Virginia.Despite appeals for clemency, Teresa Lewis, 41, was administered at 9:13 pm lethal injection yesterday at the Greensville
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Even by the arbitrary standards of America's capital punishment system, the sentence passed down on Teresa Lewis seemed particularly unfair to thousands of protesters from across the world who called for it to be commuted to life imprisonment. The 41-
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A U.S. grandmother was put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first women executed in the state for nearly a century, triggering outrage from anti death penalty campaigners.The 41-year-old pled guilty nearly seven years ago
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Teresa Lewis, the woman who was charged with arranging murder of her husband and stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment, has been executed in Virginia today. Teresa Lewis has become the first woman in 100 years to be
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This is an outcry a crying shame ,I only hope the ones who made this decision to execute this woman will be able to live with their consciences.This really proves as I would say poverty is a crime. The AP/Huff Post reports
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