http://www.newsvine.com/executionNewsvine - executionen-usCopyright 2013Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:29:07 +0000Thu, 23 May 2013 12:51:11 +0000http://www.newsvine.comhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17693654-fla-inmate-executed-for-1980-killing-of-girlhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17693654-fla-inmate-executed-for-1980-killing-of-girlusfloridaexecutionus-newsWed, 10 Apr 2013 23:28:18 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17676508-texas-executes-man-for-1990-fatal-shooting-rapehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17676508-texas-executes-man-for-1990-fatal-shooting-rapeustexasexecutionus-newsTue, 9 Apr 2013 23:38:17 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/12/17287837-oklahoma-executes-man-convicted-in-3-murdershttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/12/17287837-oklahoma-executes-man-convicted-in-3-murdersusoklahomaexecutionus-newsTue, 12 Mar 2013 23:21:11 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - This Dec. 26, 2002 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Steven Ray Thacker. Convicted of three murders in three states, Thacker is set for execution this week after waiving his right to seek clemency from the state's parole board. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17210019-ohio-executes-man-who-fatally-shot-security-guardhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/06/17210019-ohio-executes-man-who-fatally-shot-security-guardusohioexecutionus-newsWed, 6 Mar 2013 15:46:31 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE-This undated file photo released by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Frederick Treesh. Ohio prepared Wednesday, March 6, 2013, to execute Treesh, the killer of an adult bookstore security guard in a slaying that capped a violent, multi-state crime rampage in which he stole cars, robbed banks and took part in another fatal shooting. Treesh, a cocaine addict at the time of the killing, has said almost from the day he was arrested that he regretted what he did but drugs made him do it. His attorneys made the same argument a month ago in an unsuccessful bid for clemency. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)</p><p>FILE-This undated file photo released by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Frederick Treesh. Treesh was convicted of killing Henry Dupree during the robbery of an adult bookstore in Eastlake, near Cleveland, on Aug. 27, 1994. Treesh is scheduled for execution on Wednesday March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)</p><p>Deanne Danno, sister-in-law of 1994 Michigan shooting victim Ghassan "Gus" Danno, talks about her relief that a man implicated in her brother-in-law's death was executed, on Wednesday, March 6, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Death row inmate Frederick Treesh was never tried in Gus Danno's death, but was executed for the Aug. 27, 1994 shooting death of an Eastlake, Ohio, adult bookstore security guard. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17048283-texas-executes-man-who-lit-ex-girlfriend-on-firehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17048283-texas-executes-man-who-lit-ex-girlfriend-on-fireustexasexecutionsupreme-courtus-newsFri, 22 Feb 2013 01:01:46 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17047611-ga-executes-man-who-killed-college-studentshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17047611-ga-executes-man-who-killed-college-studentsusgeorgiapoliticsexecutionus-newsThu, 21 Feb 2013 23:05:31 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This undated file photo provided by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows inmate Andrew Allen Cook. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency in the case of a death row inmate set to be executed on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Cook was convicted in the 1995 slayings of two Mercer University students. Grant Patrick Hendrickson and Michele Lee Cartagena were shot several times as they sat in a car at Lake Juliette, in Georgia. (AP Photo/Georgia Dept. of Corrections)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17021445-georgia-execution-halted-at-the-last-minutehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/19/17021445-georgia-execution-halted-at-the-last-minuteusgeorgiaexecutionus-newsWed, 20 Feb 2013 00:31:52 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/16/16980230-bangladeshis-demand-death-for-war-crimes-convicthttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/16/16980230-bangladeshis-demand-death-for-war-crimes-convictbangladeshexecutionprotests1stworld-newsasldwritethruSat, 16 Feb 2013 05:08:01 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi activists participate in a rally demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. For many in Bangladesh, the ''V'' for victory sign was more than they could bear. They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings and rapes during their independence war. But there was a smiling Mollah apparently celebrating his life sentence - given in place of an expected death sentence - for his role in the killing of 381 civilians. Within hours, thousands of university students demanding his death poured into the streets of Dhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)</p><p>In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah displays the victory sign, escorted by policemen, after he was sentenced to life in prison for killings and other crimes during the nation's independence war, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. (AP Photo/Zia Islam)</p><p>In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi activists attend a rally to demand the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes involving the nation's independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)</p><p>FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi students shout slogans demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes involving the nation's independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)</p><p>FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb .6, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi people participate in a torch rally demanding death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami, leader Abdul Quader Mollah in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. Banner reads 'Hang war criminals. Cultural activists'. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)</p><p>FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, a Bangladeshi policeman beats a Jamaat-e-Islami activist on a street during a demonstration by the country’s largest Islamic party against the conviction of their leader Abdul Quader Mollah, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)</p><p>FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi activists participate in a candle light vigil demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes during the nation's independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mollah, an assistant secretary of Jamaat, was found guilty of killing a student and a family of 11 and of aiding Pakistani troops in killing 369 others. Members of his party took to the streets in anger at his conviction, exploding homemade bombs and clashing with police. But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset at what they said was a lenient verdict and inflamed by the image of Mollah smiling at journalists and holding up two fingers in a ''V'' sign as he left the court. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)</p><p>FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi activists shout slogans demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings and rapes during their independence war. But there was a smiling Mollah apparently celebrating his life sentence - given in place of an expected death sentence - for his role in the killing of 381 civilians. Within hours, thousands of university students demanding his death poured into the streets of Dhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/15/16971571-somali-militants-claim-to-execute-kenyan-soldierhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/15/16971571-somali-militants-claim-to-execute-kenyan-soldiersomaliaexecutionworld-newsafFri, 15 Feb 2013 09:28:28 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/28/16741227-texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appealhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/28/16741227-texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appealustexasexecutionfemaleinmateunited-statesus-newsfemale-inmateMon, 28 Jan 2013 20:39:51 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>File - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Kimberly McCarthy. She is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 for the July 1997 killing of retired college professor Dorothy Booth during a robbery. McCarthy's execution would be the first of a woman in Texas in more than eight years and the fourth overall in the state, where the 492 prisoners put to death since capital punishment resumed in Texas 30 years ago make it the nation's most active death penalty state. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Kimberly McCarthy, who is on death row in Texas for the 1997 killing of a neighbor during a robbery. A state judge halted McCarthy's execution Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, less than five hours before she could have been put to death, on the grounds that the jury that convicted her of murder was improperly selected on the basis of race. Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Shelly Yeatts says McCarthy's execution date now is April 3. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Kimberly McCarthy, who is on death row in Texas for the 1997 killing of a neighbor during a robbery. A state judge halted McCarthy's execution Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, less than five hours before she could have been put to death, on the grounds that the jury that convicted her of murder was improperly selected on the basis of race. Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Shelly Yeatts says McCarthy's execution date now is April 3. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16640354-un-rights-office-slams-iran-for-juvenile-executionhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/22/16640354-un-rights-office-slams-iran-for-juvenile-executioneuuniranexecutionworld-newsTue, 22 Jan 2013 11:56:30 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16529583-va-inmate-who-fought-for-death-penalty-executedhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16529583-va-inmate-who-fought-for-death-penalty-executedusexecutionvirginiaus-newsTue, 15 Jan 2013 20:55:26 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE- This March 2011, file photo, provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows inmate Robert Gleason at the Red Onion prison in Pound, Va. Gleason is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Condemned Virginia inmates can choose between lethal injection and electrocution, and Gleason is the first inmate to choose electrocution since 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections)</p><p>FILE This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Robert Gleason Jr. is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Condemned Virginia inmates can choose between lethal injection and electrocution, and Gleason is the first inmate to choose electrocution since 2010.</p><p>FILE - This Sept. 23, 2009 file photo shows the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Robert Gleason Jr. is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Condemned Virginia inmates can choose between lethal injection and electrocution, and Gleason is the first inmate to choose electrocution since 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections)</p><p>FILE In this Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 file photo prison guards mill outside the entrance to the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Robert Gleason Jr. is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at the prison. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15835047-florida-executes-ex-cop-for-killing-9-in-1986http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15835047-florida-executes-ex-cop-for-killing-9-in-1986usexexecutionsupreme-courtus-newsofficerpolice-officerTue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:13 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In a 1988 photo Manuel Pardo listens as his sentence is read; he was found guilty of nine counts of murder. Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night Dec. 10, 2012, at Florida State Prison in Starke barring a last-minute stay, fulfilling a request he made to jurors at his 1988 trial. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, ) MAGS OUT NO SALES</p><p>In a March 1988 photo Manuel Pardo, left, confers with his lawyer during his murder trial in March of 1988. Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night Dec. 11, 2012, at Florida State Prison in Starke barring a last-minute stay, fulfilling a request he made to jurors at his 1988 trial. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald) MAGS OUT NO SALES</p><p>FILE- In this 1988, file photo, Manuel Pardo, found guilty of nine counts of murder, listens as his sentence is read. Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, at Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. U.S. Judge Timothy Corrigan denied Pardo's request for a stay on Monday. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Marice Cohn Band, File)</p><p>FILE- In this March 1988, file photo, Manuel Pardo, left, confers with his lawyer during his murder trial in Florida. Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, at Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. U.S. Judge Timothy Corrigan denied Pardo's request for a stay on Monday. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, File) </p><p>In this undated photograph made available by the Florida Dept. of Corrections shows Manuel Pardo Jr. Pardo, a former Florida police officer is scheduled to be executed for the murder of nine people 26 years ago. The execution by lethal injection is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 at Florida State Prison in Starke. (AP Photo/Florida Dept. of Corrections, HO)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15817650-former-fla-police-officer-scheduled-for-executionhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15817650-former-fla-police-officer-scheduled-for-executionusexecutionsouth-floridaus-newspardomanuel-pardoMon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:09 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/05/15703171-arizona-inmate-executed-after-murdering-2-girlshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/05/15703171-arizona-inmate-executed-after-murdering-2-girlsusarizonaexecutionus-newsWed, 5 Dec 2012 18:34:51 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/04/15680045-oklahoma-executes-inmate-for-1993-shooting-deathshttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/04/15680045-oklahoma-executes-inmate-for-1993-shooting-deathsusoklahomaexecutionoklahoma-cityus-newsochoaWed, 5 Dec 2012 00:13:19 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15199948-man-executed-for-killing-texas-cousins-15-and-3http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15199948-man-executed-for-killing-texas-cousins-15-and-3ustexasexecutionus-newspreston-hughespreston-hughes-iiiFri, 16 Nov 2012 01:57:28 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>In this Oct. 17, 2012, photo, Texas death row inmate Preston Hughes III speaks from a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas. Hughes is scheduled for lethal injection Nov. 15, 2012, for the 1988 murders in Houston of Shandra Charles, 15, and her 3-year-old cousin, Marcell Taylor. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)</p><p>In this Oct. 17, 2012, photo, Texas death row inmate Preston Hughes III speaks from a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas. Hughes is scheduled for lethal injection Nov. 15, 2012, for the 1988 murders in Houston of Shandra Charles, 15, and her 3-year-old cousin, Marcell Taylor. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)</p><p>In this Oct. 17, 2012, photo, Texas death row inmate Preston Hughes III speaks from a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas. Hughes is scheduled for lethal injection Nov. 15, 2012, for the 1988 murders in Houston of Shandra Charles, 15, and her 3-year-old cousin, Marcell Taylor. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/12/15136220-ohio-executes-killer-who-repeatedly-stabbed-womanhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/12/15136220-ohio-executes-killer-who-repeatedly-stabbed-womanusohioexecutionus-newsTue, 13 Nov 2012 00:53:54 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows death row inmate Brett Hartman. Hartman was executed Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio for the 1997 death of Winda Snipes. Warden Donald Morgan said the time of death was 10:34 am. The Ohio Parole Board has unanimously denied Hartman's requests for clemency three times, citing the brutality of the Snipes' slaying and the "overwhelming evidence" of Hartman's guilt. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)</p><p>Jacqueline Brown, a friend of murder victim Winda Snipes, talks to reporters after witnessing the execution of Snipes' killer, Brett Hartman, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, in Lucasville, Ohio. Brown said Snipes' family was relieved the case had finally ended. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/08/15031499-man-put-to-death-for-texas-womans-2001-slayinghttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/08/15031499-man-put-to-death-for-texas-womans-2001-slayingustexasexecutionsan-antonious-newsFri, 9 Nov 2012 00:45:23 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows Mario Swain. Swain is set for execution Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 for the slaying 46-year-old Lola Nixon in Dec. 2002 in Longview, Texas. (AP Photo/ Texas Department of Public Safety)</p><p>This handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows Ramon Torres Hernandez. Hernandez, 39, is scheduled to die Wednesday for the rape, robbery and slaying of Rosa Maria Rosado, who was abducted from a bus stop in 2001. A shovel used to bury her in a shallow grave helped tie him to the crime.(AP Photo/ Texas Department of Public Safety)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14977129-okla-inmate-executed-for-fiancees-1986-killinghttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14977129-okla-inmate-executed-for-fiancees-1986-killingusoklahomaexecutionus-newsWed, 7 Nov 2012 00:19:06 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14974744-court-refuses-to-block-okla-executionhttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/06/14974744-court-refuses-to-block-okla-executionusoklahomacourtpoliticsexecutionsupreme-courtTue, 6 Nov 2012 20:57:20 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14838397-louisiana-ex-con-executed-for-2003-texas-killinghttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14838397-louisiana-ex-con-executed-for-2003-texas-killingustexasexecutionus-newseast-texasdonnie-lee-robertsWed, 31 Oct 2012 23:46:54 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>This handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows Donnie Roberts. Roberts, a Louisiana parole violator, is set to die Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, for killing his girlfriend Vicki Bowen at her home in Lake Livingston, Texas, in October 2003. (AP Photo/ Texas Department of Public Safety)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/30/14809412-mother-execution-brings-relief-not-closurehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/30/14809412-mother-execution-brings-relief-not-closureusexecutionus-newssouth-dakotadakotabecky-o'connelltina-curlTue, 30 Oct 2012 19:35:21 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - This July 18, 2012 file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D. Moeller is scheduled to be executed to be executed the week of Oct. 29, 2012, for the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. His death sentence was the first handed down in South Dakota since the 1940s. (AP Photo/Courtesy KELO-TV, File)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo taken in Lake Luzerne, N.Y., and provided by Dave Curl shows a shrine to Becky O'Connell, who was killed in Sioux Falls, S.D., in May 1990. Tina Curl, the 9-year-old's mother, plans to drive back to Sioux Falls from her home in New York to watch the execution of Donald Moeller. Moeller is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, for the rape and murder of O'Connell. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dave Curl)</p><p>FILE - In this undated photo provided by Dave Curl, Dave Curl and his wife, Tina Curl, pose for a picture in Hadley, N.Y. Tina, the mother of Becky O'Connell, plans to drive to Sioux Falls, S.D., from her home in New York to watch the execution of Donald Moeller. Moeller is scheduled to be executed the week of Oct. 29, 2012, for the 1990 rape and murder of O'Connell in South Dakota. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dave Curl)</p><p>FILE - This July 18, 2012 file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D. Moeller, 60, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls, marking South Dakota's second execution this month in an unusual surge for a state that has carried out just two other death sentences since 1913. (AP Photo/Courtesy KELO-TV, File)</p><p>In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, Tina Curl of Lake Luzerne, N.Y., holds up photographs of her daughter's grave as friend Wendy Wilson looks on. Curl spoke to reporters after witnessing the execution of Donald Moeller at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Moeller, 60, kidnapped, raped and killed Curl's 9-year-old daughter, Becky O'Connell, in 1990. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)</p><p>Leona Wieland, 65, of Sioux Falls, lights candles in peaceful protest with Sister Janice Klein, left, as they await the Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, execution in Sioux Falls, S.D., of South Dakota State Penitentiary inmate Donald Moeller. Moeller, 60, is set to die for the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. His death will mark the state's second execution this month. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)</p><p>In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, Tina Curl of Lake Luzerne, N.Y., reacts as media witnesses describe the last moments of Donald Moeller, the man convicted of killing her 9-year-old daughter, after Moeller's execution at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Moeller, 60, kidnapped, raped and stabbed Becky O'Connell to death in 1990. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)</p><p>Tina Curl, of Lake Luzerne, N.Y., holds an artist's rendering of what her daughter Beck O'Connell might look like today if she hadn't been murdered at age 9, during a news conference following the execution of her daughter's killer in Sioux Falls, S.D., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Her husband Dave Curl, right, speaks to reporters. Donald Moeller, who kidnapped, raped and killed Becky in 1990, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)</p> http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/29/14779273-court-turns-away-appeal-from-death-row-inmatehttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/29/14779273-court-turns-away-appeal-from-death-row-inmateustexascourtpoliticsexecutionsupreme-courtMon, 29 Oct 2012 13:41:58 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14759476-execution-looms-for-sd-killer-ending-22-year-sagahttp://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14759476-execution-looms-for-sd-killer-ending-22-year-sagauschildexecutionmurdersioux-fallsus-newsSun, 28 Oct 2012 17:25:13 +0000http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post<p>FILE - This July 18, 2012 file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D. Moeller is scheduled to be executed to be executed the week of Oct. 29, 2012, for the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. His death sentence was the first handed down in South Dakota since the 1940s. (AP Photo/Courtesy KELO-TV, File)</p><p>FILE - This undated file photo taken in Lake Luzerne, N.Y., and provided by Dave Curl shows a shrine to Becky O'Connell, who was killed in Sioux Falls, S.D., in May 1990. Tina Curl, the 9-year-old's mother, plans to drive back to Sioux Falls from her home in New York to watch the execution of Donald Moeller. Moeller is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, for the rape and murder of O'Connell. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dave Curl)</p><p>FILE - In this undated photo provided by Dave Curl, Dave Curl and his wife, Tina Curl, pose for a picture in Hadley, N.Y. Tina, the mother of Becky O'Connell, plans to drive to Sioux Falls, S.D., from her home in New York to watch the execution of Donald Moeller. Moeller is scheduled to be executed the week of Oct. 29, 2012, for the 1990 rape and murder of O'Connell in South Dakota. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dave Curl)</p>