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• Killer Joseph Duncan gets new hearing

  January 8, 2013 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Joseph Duncan was sentenced to death three times over for crimes against a 9-year-old North Idaho boy he killed in 2005, and he initially and repeatedly said he … 18

• Media wins execution access case, state pays fees

  July 9, 2012 in Idaho The state of Idaho and a group of Idaho news media have agreed that all Idaho executions should be open to media witnesses from start to finish, ending a lawsuit …

• 9th Circuit orders Idaho executions opened up

  June 8, 2012 in Idaho The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has sided with the news media, ordering a preliminary injunction to require Idaho to permit full viewing of the upcoming execution of Richard … 2

• Judge denies injunction in execution case

  June 6, 2012 in Idaho on Page A7 BOISE – A federal judge declined Tuesday to issue a preliminary injunction against limits on witness access to Idaho’s executions, finding that while the news media presented “a strong case …

• Idaho has long history of execution witnesses

  June 5, 2012 in Idaho on Page A6 Editor’s note: Reporter Betsy Z. Russell, president of the Idaho Press Club, researched the issue of media witnesses to executions both for this article and for the news media’s court …

• News media witnesses at executions an Idaho tradition

  June 4, 2012 in Idaho As Idaho’s news media spar with the state in federal court over limits on access to executions, the case has turned a spotlight onto Idaho’s long and consistent history of … 3

• 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

• City wins civil suit over man’s suicide

  February 9, 2012 in City on Page A6 A federal judge Wednesday ruled for the city of Spokane in a $4.7 million civil lawsuit brought by the family of a suicidal man who jumped off the Monroe Street … 16

• Sex offender gets two-year sentence

  September 2, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A5 A Plummer, Idaho, man who sexually abused a child then failed to register as a sex offender was sentenced this week to more than two years in federal prison.

• GPS trail shows Duncan’s path

  August 19, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Joseph Duncan was set to commit his crimes in northwestern Montana, with different children as his victims, before he changed his mind, drove to Idaho and targeted the …