When 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee was kidnapped, raped, strangled and drowned in the small Florida city of Mascotte nearly 40 years ago, a surprising suspect emerged: a rookie cop named James Duckett ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it won't consider another man's confession as a reason to pause a scheduled lethal injection in three weeks. James Broadnax was convicted of murdering ...

THE STORY. OLIVIA, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US TONIGHT? WELL, CHANTEL, DEATH PENALTY ABOLITIONISTS SAY WHEN THIS TRIAL HAPPENED NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, THE JURY DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR HIS PTSD AND ADD THAT HE’S ...

James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl — wants the Florida Supreme Court to extend the pause on his ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Life in prison without parole is the sentence for a man found guilty in the execution-style murder of a 25-year-old victim. Djaune Ferguson learned his fate Tuesday after ...

Despite an eleventh-hour confession from another man, James Broadnax is slated to be executed by the state of Texas later this month. Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

The Florida Supreme Court set a Wednesday deadline for briefs to be submitted in a request for an independent analysis of DNA test results. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at Union ...

NEW YORK — A new analysis finds that as states expand death penalty practices, execution methods in the United States are becoming increasingly cruel, raising serious constitutional concerns under the ...

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

A day after death row inmate James Duckett had been set for execution, a Lake County circuit judge on April 1 denied access to underlying DNA data generated in a recent test, which proved inconclusive ...