8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle died a brutal death after her mom was lured to Walmart in June 2013. 61-year-old Donald James Smith had promised to buy Perrywinkle’s family food and clothing if they would agree to meet his wife at the Jacksonville location. People reports, “Cherish’s mother, Rayne Perrywinkle, initially declined to go with Smith, but […]
The state of Georgia will put the death its oldest inmate convicted in connection with a murder in 1979.
The court argued the Kansas case in October 2015 and came to an 8 to 1 decision on Wednesday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented the Supreme Court's decision, only to note the case shouldn't have been heard in the first place.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Florida death row inmate's sentencing was unconstitutional. Timothy Lee Hurst, who was convicted of a gruesome 1998 murder, found his sentence overturned after the high court discovered that a judge handed down the fatal ruling instead of a jury.
Suspected Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof has been indicted twice on charges and now could face the death penalty in both cases
