Florida officials said a man who was previously sentenced to death for abducting, raping, and killing an 11-year-old girl in 2004 died in prison on Monday. The Bradenton Herald-Tribune reported that it is unclear how Joseph Smith, 55, died but the medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. In …
A federal appeals court has lifted the execution stay for Lisa Montgomery, the only female on federal death row. As CrimeOnline previously reported, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss previously vacated an order that scheduled Montgomery for execution on January 12, which was a new date after the court rescheduled her first execution, which was set …
The execution date for death row inmate Lisa Montgomery has been rescheduled after a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice unlawfully set the execution date up while disregarding rules. AP reports that U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss vacated an order that scheduled Montgomery for execution on January 12, which was a new …
An Indiana death row inmate is pushing to stay at her current prison. She’s scheduled to be transferred to an all-male prison for execution. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 43-year-old Lisa Montgomery, an inmate at the all-female Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, is scheduled for death by legal injection on January 12. The only …
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General William Barr and others, claiming that the conditions at a prison are torture for Lisa Montgomery, a woman scheduled for death in January. The Kansas City Star reports that the lawsuit, which was filed this month at the U.S. District Court for the …
A woman who strangled an expectant mother and cut her newborn baby out of her womb is scheduled to be executed in December, but her lawyers apparently have coronaviruses, which prompted them to request a pushback. Fox News reports that the lawyers for Lisa Montgomery filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for the …
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a Mississippi death row inmate who was tried for the same crime six times by a prosecutor accused of showing a pattern of racial bias in the jury selection process. Curtis Flowers, 49, spent 22 years on death row for the 1996 fatal shooting of four employees …
Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of murdering at least nine women and in the 1980s, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court declined his third appeal. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the panel unanimously dismissed all seven claims Long, 65, brought forth, including a challenge to the state’s …
A Texas inmate who tortured and drowned his female roommate is scheduled to die on Wednesday at 6 p.m. for her murder, officials confirmed. FOX News reports that 51-year-old Troy Clark jeered at a Smith County jury during his 2000 trial and dared them to sentence him to death. The jury did just that. Clark is …
Attorneys for a Texas inmate facing execution for the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife, their young son, and the woman’s infant daughter told a federal judge that he’s too mentally ill to face capital punishment. Andre Thomas, 35, was sentenced to death for the March 2004 slayings of Laura Boren, 4-year-old Andre Jr., and Boren’s …
Scott Peterson, the former Modesto resident currently on death row for killing his wife and unborn son in 2002, thinks that his death sentence is “cruel and unusual” and that a juror tainted the jury’s ultimate decision to convict him. He filed a claim to the state of California in 2015, but the state fought …
“There’s no way that Scott Killed her, ‘cause he was gone.”
