Guards keeping close watch on condemned Ohio inmate after unprecedented execution delaySeptember 16th, 2009 Guards watch Ohio inmate after execution delayLUCASVILLE, Ohio — A condemned inmate whose execution was stopped because of problems finding a usable vein will remain at the maximum security prison where death row inmates usually are held for a day before being put to death. Ohio prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says inmate Romell Broom has been placed in a cell in the infirmary at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville and will remain there over the next week.
La. mom accused of beating school bus driver because she thought she was mean to her daughterAugust 20th, 2009 Mom allegedly beats daughter's school bus driverRICHWOOD, La. — Police booked a woman with beating her daughter's school bus driver.
Prosecutors say Colo. woman accused of killing husband killed first 1, tooAugust 14th, 2009 Colo. woman accused of killing 2 husbandsGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Prosecutors say a 52-year-old Colorado woman accused of shooting and killing her husband last year is responsible for the death of her first husband, too.
Man in Ohio sentenced to 12 years in fatal beating of 4-year-old boyAugust 13th, 2009 Man gets 12 years in 4-year-old's beating deathCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a beating that killed an Ohio preschool boy. Twenty-two-year-old Robert Overton III of Columbus was convicted in June of felonious assault and child endangering.
Charges dropped against Ohio teenager accused of killing his identical twin in bedroomAugust 6th, 2009 Charges dropped in death of Ohio identical twinCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A prosecutor has dropped charges against an Ohio teenager accused of fatally shooting his identical twin. Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien said Thursday that tests have cast doubt on the key piece of evidence.
Police: Ohio woman rents gun at shooting range, learns how to fire it, uses it to kill herselfJuly 28th, 2009 Police: Ohio woman shoots self at gun range, diesSHARONVILLE, Ohio — Police say a woman rented a handgun at an Ohio indoor shooting range, got some instructions on how to use it and then fatally shot herself. Police in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville say they believe Ann Fukuyama committed suicide Sunday at Target World, a public range that sells and rents guns and has a dozen 25-yard target shooting lanes.
Mass. woman charged as accessory to assault of 7-year-old who died after Father's Day beatingJuly 22nd, 2009 Mass. woman charged in boy's Father's Day beatingWORCESTER, Mass. — The girlfriend of a man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son to death on Father's Day has been indicted on new charges.
Ohio woman who found fawn in her flower garden accused of clubbing it to death with a shovelJuly 8th, 2009 Ohio woman accused of fawn's shovel beating deathEUCLID, Ohio — An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Seventy-five-year-old Dorothy Richardson is charged in a warrant with animal cruelty at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation, a wooded park where deer, foxes and other wildlife roam.
Coroner says Ohio man's freezer held head and arms of woman he's accused of killingJune 26th, 2009 Ohio coroner: Head and arms found in man's freezerCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio coroner says the head and arms of a woman were found in the freezer of the man charged with killing her. Columbus police say other remains were found in trash bins, a pond and brush around an apartment complex on the city's southwest side.
Ohio woman who was 3 when her mother was killed won't testify at stepfather's murder trialJune 16th, 2009 Ohio woman who was 3 when mom killed won't testifyTOLEDO, Ohio — The case against an Ohio man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk nearly 18 years ago is going to the jury. Prosecutors in Toledo rested their case Tuesday without calling the defendant's former stepdaughter to testify.
Ohio police believe woman tried to hold up 3 banks within 35 minutesJune 16th, 2009 Woman suspected in 3 holdups within 35 minutesAKRON, Ohio — Ohio authorities said they believe a woman held up three banks within just over a half-hour. Akron Police Lt.
Prosecutor: Ohio man accused of strangling wife 17 years ago knew his marriage was overJune 11th, 2009 Ohio man on trial in killing of wife 17 years agoTOLEDO, Ohio — A prosecutor in northern Ohio says a man accused of killing his wife and stuffing her body in a car trunk 17 years ago knew his marriage was coming to an end at the time the woman disappeared. Thomas Zich is accused of strangling Mary Jane Zich and faces life in prison if convicted.
Pa. man charged with trespassing for burying dead cat in neighbor's tomato gardenJune 9th, 2009 Neighbor accused of burying cat in woman's gardenBETHLEHEM, Pa. — A woman planting tomatoes in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley said she was shocked when the was turning over the soil in her garden to plant tomatoes and found cat paws sticking out.
US Supreme Court denies appeals of Ohio man who burned woman alive, inmate awaits executionJune 3rd, 2009 Supreme Court denies OH death row inmate's appealsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied appeals by an Ohio inmate scheduled to be executed Wednesday for locking a woman in a car trunk and burning her alive.
Supreme Court says Ohio gets chance to reinstate convicted killer's death sentenceJune 1st, 2009 High court rules for Ohio in death penalty caseWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state of Ohio should have another chance to sentence a convicted killer to death, despite a previous factual finding that the man is mentally retarded. The court on Monday said a federal appeals court acted too quickly in throwing out the death sentence for Michael Bies, after the Supreme Court barred execution of mentally retarded people in 2002.
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