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The Texas Supreme Court orders a last-minute stay of execution for Robert Roberson

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The Texas Supreme Court orders a last-minute stay of execution for Robert Roberson

HUNTSVILLE – The Texas Supreme Court stopped the planned execution of Robert Roberson Late Thursday evening, a few hours before he was set to become the first person in the United States to be executed for murder related to shaken baby syndrome. Roberson's Lawyers and state lawmakers filed a last-minute civil appeal with the Texas […]

Robert Roberson 'shocked' by execution delay in Texas

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Robert Roberson 'shocked' by execution delay in Texas

Robert Roberson was “shocked” after the Texas Supreme Court halted his execution on Thursday. Roberson, 57, would become the first person in the United States to be executed for murder related to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. He was sentenced to death for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, after prosecutors argued […]

Alabama executes Derrick Dearman, a man who killed five people and asked to be executed

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Alabama executes Derrick Dearman, a man who killed five people and asked to be executed

A man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and a gun during a murder was executed in Alabama on Thursday drug-related shooting spree in 2016 and dropped his appeals to move forward with his lethal injection. Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman Prison in southern Alabama. […]

Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

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Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of the 1998 murder of […]

Marcellus Williams executed despite protests and requests for clemency

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Marcellus Williams executed despite protests and requests for clemency

MID-MISSOURI – Marcellus Williams was executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Bonne Terre. Although Governor Mike Parson rejected Williams's pardon for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis County, protesters gathered across central Missouri before his execution, calling for Parson to spare his life. Jim Kemnna, a volunteer at the Jefferson City Correctional […]

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams after Supreme Court rejects final request for stay

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Missouri executes Marcellus Williams after Supreme Court rejects final request for stay

Washington — The state of Missouri executed on Tuesday Marcellus Williams Shortly afterward, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to stay his execution. The state Department of Justice said he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. CT. Williams, the protested his innocence was executed by lethal injection in 1998 for the stabbing death of […]