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• Duncan alters course on sentence appeal

  May 19, 2012 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Notorious murderer Joseph Duncan has changed his mind about waiving his right to appeal, saying he owes it to his mother to try getting off death row for … 14

• Idaho judge sets Leavitt execution for June 12

  May 17, 2012 in Idaho BOISE — A 7th District Judge has signed a death warrant for condemned inmate Richard Albert Leavitt, ordering that he be executed by lethal injection. 3

• Death row inmate challenges reprieve

  April 18, 2012 in Region SALEM, Ore. — A condemned inmate spared from the death penalty is back in court today as he challenges a reprieve granted by Gov. John Kitzhaber. A judge is not … 4

• Duncan’s competence at sentencing to be reconsidered

  March 29, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A1 Condemned serial killer Joseph E. Duncan is getting another day in court. Duncan, on death row for the torture and slaying of a North Idaho boy he abducted in 2005 … 2

• Death penalty overturned for man who killed 3

  March 27, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence of a Tucson man who bludgeoned his girlfriend and her two children to death in 1984, ruling that … 17

• Triple murderer executed in Idaho

  November 19, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Triple murderer Paul Rhoades was executed Friday morning despite repeated last-minute appeals, in Idaho’s first execution since 1994 and only its second since 1957. “The execution of Paul …

• Triple killer Rhoades executed in Idaho

  November 18, 2011 in Idaho Triple murderer Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed this morning despite repeated last-minute appeals, in Idaho’s first execution since 1994 and only its second since 1957. 11

• As execution approaches, Otter checks in from Maui

  November 17, 2011 in News, Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – As last-minute pleas for clemency continued to pour into Idaho’s state Capitol this week in advance of the state’s first execution since 1994, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wasn’t … 17

• As Rhoades execution nears, Otter stands by death penalty

  November 12, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, a Catholic who once studied for the priesthood, is the only one who can spare the life of condemned Idaho inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades, … 17

• Texas ruling ends inquiry in death penalty case

  July 29, 2011 The Texas attorney general severely limited the state’s Forensic Science Commission’s ability to investigate past cases Friday, including an arson case that critics say might have ended in the execution … 2

• 9th Circuit orders Duncan back into court in Idaho

  July 11, 2011 in News, Idaho The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ordered convicted child-killer Joseph Duncan back into court in Idaho, saying a federal judge should have ordered a competency hearing before allowing … 19

• Cutoff day dooms dozens of measures in Washington Legislature

  February 22, 2011 in City on Page A7 OLYMPIA – Fourteen-year-olds can probably forget about voting in this year’s school board races. English may be the language everyone in the state uses for official events and documents, but …

• Wash. Supreme Court lifts stay of execution for Brown

  July 29, 2010 The state Supreme Court has lifted the stay of execution for Cal Coburn Brown. The high court unanimously ruled today that Brown’s claims that the state’s execution process is unconstitutional … 4

• Trial opens in murder of crime witness

  July 26, 2010 in City Defense attorney Mark Vovos on Monday told a jury of Stevens County residents that the murder trial they are about to decide amounts to a “classic cover-up” by detectives who … 3

• Couple can face death penalty

  June 7, 2010 in City on Page A6 SEATTLE – A King County judge says prosecutors can seek the death penalty against a couple charged in the slayings of six people in rural Carnation, Wash., on Christmas Eve … 1

• Jury chooses death for West Valley grad

  June 3, 2010 in City on Page A7 A 1999 West Valley High graduate convicted of rape and murder in Reno, Nev., should die for his crimes, a jury ruled Wednesday.

• West Valley grad on trial for murder in Nevada

  May 15, 2010 in City on Page B3 A former Spokane Valley man is on trial in Nevada for the murder of a 19-year-old college coed and sexual assaults of two other women near the University of Nevada, …

• King County jury: Man should die for killing 4 in Kirkland

  May 5, 2010 in Region A man convicted of slaughtering four members of a Kirkland family then trying to cover up the crime by burning down their house should be put to death, a jury … 1

• Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row

  March 17, 2010 in Idaho The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions …

• Washington changes execution method

  March 2, 2010 in City Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court. 13

• Death penalty avoided

  February 4, 2010 in City on Page A5 A Deer Park man accused of murdering a witness in an assault case against him will avoid the death penalty if convicted because prosecutors mismanaged the case, a judge ruled … 1

• Prosecutors’ mixup takes death penalty off the table

  February 3, 2010 in News A Deer Park man accused of murdering a witness in an assault case against him will avoid the death penalty because prosecutors mismanaged the case, a judge ruled Wednesday. 2

• Smart Bombs: Death penalty kills budgets

  January 6, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Perhaps one good outcome of tight budgets will be the death of the death penalty. Fifteen states have rescinded capital punishment since the U.S. Supreme Court revived it in a … 2

• Sniper dies by lethal injection

  November 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 JARRATT, Va. – John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington, D.C., region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at … 2

• D.C.-area sniper executed

  November 10, 2009 in Nation/World The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C., region has been executed. 6

• Sniper’s lawyers see his humanity

  November 10, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – If attorney Jon Sheldon’s final plea to save the life of John Allen Muhammad fails, he will go to Virginia’s death chamber tonight to watch the sniper die. … 5

• No death penalty in pregnant Idaho woman’s killing

  October 23, 2009 in Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho — Prosecutors in northern Idaho say they will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and then setting the home on …

• Appeal delays mount for Duncan sentence

  September 27, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1 Thirteen months after Joseph Duncan was handed three death sentences for his abduction and murder of a North Idaho child, his appeal languishes in its earliest stages at the 9th … 1

• Montana Senate favors abolishing death penalty

  February 17, 2009 in City on Page A6 HELENA – The state Senate is again endorsing a plan to end the death penalty in favor of life in prison with no parole, giving initial support to the plan …