CHARLOTTE (AP) — A North Carolina district attorney has dropped a capital murder charge against a man in the 2017 death of his parents, citing an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 to those associated with the trial. Mecklenburg County ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Tuesday about a Texas death row inmate's demand that his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution. Executions in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is sending a message to states that want to continue to carry out the death penalty: Inmates must be allowed to have a spiritual adviser by their side as they are executed. The high ...

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A serial killer on North Carolina’s death row had no constitutional right under Simmons v. South Carolina to inform the sentencing jury that because he was already ineligible for parole, he did not pose a continuing danger to society, the ...

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SALISBURY (AP) A North Carolina district attorney says he will seek the death penalty against the adoptive father of a teenager who was missing for years before her body was found in South Carolina. The judge presiding over a hearing ...

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Dingle v. Stevenson (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-148-16, 11 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 15-6832, Oct. 25, 2016; USDC at Florence, S.C. (Hendricks, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant who pleaded guilty to murder and related crimes as a 17-year-old in 1995 ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A judge has agreed that prosecutors can seek the death penalty against a man charged with beating and burning to death an Army veteran he had met at a bar in 2014. The News & Record ...

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This story is the fourth in a series of articles by David Donovan that will examine important issues in criminal law for 2016. When a Pitt County jury handed down its sentence on April 4 to Antwan Anthony, convicted of ...

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LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — Joe Freeman Britt Sr., once dubbed the world's deadliest district attorney for his ability to obtain death sentences, is dead at the age of 80. Britt died Wednesday of natural causes following an illness, Joe Bounds, ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Guilford County prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty in the slaying of a restaurant delivery driver last year. Prosecutors said Monday they will seek a death sentence for 22-year-old Jeremy Carter of Greensboro, The News ...

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