Dubs reacts to a jury verdict acquitting Michael Mead The Charlotte Observer profiles  death penalty defense attorney Lisa Dubs.  Here...

Cleveland.com reported last week on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the death penalty in the case of Tyrone Noling, ...

The man in the mugshot is Randall Dale Adams, the subject of Eroll Morris' great documentary The Thin Blue Line.  Randall Dale Adams w...

At least that's the question Florida taxpayers should be screaming at prosecutors in the wake of the 94-page ruling by U.S. District Ju...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that activists in an attempt to save the life of Roy Blankenship who is scheduled to be killed ...

Nathan Gorenstein at Philly.com has the story of a honked-off Pa. Supreme Court Chief Justice.  This is an excerpt from Gorenstein's s...

The Dallas Morning News updates its reports  on Cameron Todd Willingham the Texas man wrongly convicted and executed for arson murder of hi...

Reporter Frank Green at the Ricmond Times-Dispatch has this fascinating look at the pending Virginia execution of Teresa Lewis (pic, right...

According to the Chicago Sun-Times: "On this date in 1966, murderer James D. French was executed by electric chair in Oklahoma. Fren...

The Guardian UK reports that Iran is scheduled to execute an 18 year old on a now-debunked charge of sodomy.  According to a report in the ...

The Homicidal Hitchhiker didn't go quietly according to  the Columbus Dispatch .  This is Alan Johnson's report: "[Michael Be...

It's pretty apparent if you've read Bad Lawyer for any time at all that I'm anti-death penalty.  The death penalty is a waste o...

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting  that those charming folks at the State of Ohio Department of Corrections are exploring the possibility o...

The Dallas Morning News has an intriguing interview with law professor and former federal prosecutor, Mark Osler (pic) who poses the questi...

The Columbia, Missouri Tribune  (with a big hat tip to KC Crime Blog )   has this incredible  story of Frank Dryman a convicted murder who...

The first murder was Cain's murder of his brother Abel according to the Old Testament. Now Cain was a bad dude, in fact he was bad to ...

My pal, Chris pointed out a brief item in todays, NYT that led me to track down a more compehensive report at the Houston Chronicle websit...

Associated Press reporter Bob Christie has this account   of the death of Leroy Nash, of natural casues on Arizona's Death Row.  I caug...

Texas Death Row Appellate Attorney David Dow was interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air, today.  At the link you can listen to the intervie...

John Grisham is the author of many books lawyers love to read.  I'm guessing he himself would deny literary-airs, but his novels consist...