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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of thirty separate counts in connection with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attacks that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman will spend her birthday in court learning whether jurors want her to be executed for running her granddaughter to death.

The state legislature in Utah has passed legislation to allow death by firing squad in certain cases.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates — and increasing concern about new sources for the drugs — has prompted a nationwide debate about whether the method of execution is still feasible or humane.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for an Oklahoma inmate who had been set to be put to death the same night as a botched execution are asking the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to grant a stay for at least six months pending a review into what went wrong last week.

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials halted an inmate's execution after a new drug combination left him writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney. He later died of a heart attack.

Convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. tonight (April 29). While authorities were administering the lethal injection they discovered the line into Lockett's arm had blown. Prison officials halted the execution and at 7:06 p.m. Lockett suffered a massive heart attack and passed away.

Fox News reporter Jana Winter could face contempt of court charges, in other words, jail time, if she refuses to reveal the source who provided her with some information in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting.

Indianapolis, IN (WIBX) - Although Penn State's football program was able to avoid the death penalty, the judgement levied by the NCAA will be felt by the school for years to come.