NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A Union County school bus driver and former swim coach has been charged with soliciting sex from someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
MyCrimeSpace (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Teen sex charges for Monroe man: There was no confirmation in this story that any social networking site was used in the crime. However this story is sort of local to me and the guy is so stupid I needed to post this. 48-year-old Michael Richard Wullschleger of Monroe, NC took his family on a vacation to [...]
HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Courtesy: SWAC.org The Tigers of Texas Southern defeated Prairie View A&M 12-11 in the 2008 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament championship game in Lee-Hines Stadium on the campus of Southern University. The Tigers (16-32) cruised through the tournament in the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a Georgia man who killed his girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions last September.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a Georgia man who killed his girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions last September.
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a condemned killer who shot his live-in girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions in September.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Georgia board denies clemency bid; first execution in 7 months.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Georgia is poised to become the first state in the nation to execute an inmate since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in September to review Kentucky inmates' claims that lethal injection is unconstitutional. The court ruled last month that Kentucky's method of executing inmates, also used by about three dozen other states, is constitutional.
BigDaddyBlog (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
From World: 2007 Death Penalty statistics, notes and case studies and Secrecy surrounds death penalty; Michael Richard was executed in Texas, USA, on 25 September after a state courthouse refused to stay open an extra 15 minutes to allow the filing of an appeal based on the constitutionality of lethal injections. Richard’s attorneys had been unable [...]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
Hillsborough County deputies arrested a Dover couple on Monday after they were caught stealing railroad braces from tracks near Miller and Washington roads in Valrico, according to arrest reports.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
At 8:23 p.m. local time on Sept. 25, 2007, Michael Richard was pronounced dead inside the execution chamber at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. The United States hasn't held an execution since.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/12/2007
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller apparently violated court policies for handling death penalty cases when she closed the court clerk's doors on Michael Richard's efforts to file a last-minute appeal before his execution.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
More than at any time over the past 30 years, the future of capital punishment is in limbo.
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to profile the top 40 hitters and top 40 pitchers in the A’s minor league system. Why 40? It seemed like a nice round number, and that's about all the players that are worth talking about, anyway. My rankings are based on the following criteria: The hitting line on AVG/OBP/SLG/OPS Walk-to-strikeout [...]
a Public Defender (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
Veteran's Day edition! Governor Rell is opposed to the $260million proposal to build new prisons, which was covered here. This NYT piece considers whether suspension of parole is an Ex-Post Facto violation. Norm covers the CT angle, while Scott has the New York perspective . Indignant Indigent has a great post on why it is ineffective not to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. He goes...
