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After years of appeals and legal machinations, the convicted murderer will die Thursday in a Huntsville, Texas, execution chamber. Graham, 36, was found guilty of a 1981 murder, and has spent the interim period denying his guilt. While no one involved in this case harbors any illusions that Graham is...
The plaintiffs: Don't expect any crying for David Koresh. Caddell has long claimed that his opening arguments would kick off with the words "I am not here to defend David Koresh." He'd much prefer that the trial deal not with why the FBI siege began, but with how...
Texas governor George W. Bush, who has presided unflinchingly over 131 executions during his tenure, is in the national spotlight again this week as the scheduled lethal injection of convicted murderer Gary Graham looms ever closer. Graham, who was found guilty in 1981 of murdering Bobby Gene Lambert, will die...
Some death penalty supporters might have been comfortable with McGinn's execution; his guilt in the murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter was never in question. The only debate revolved around McGinn's guilt in the exacerbating crime (in this case, rape) that edged the murder into capital territory...
At first blush, a novel about a pair of twins yoked together at their chests by a 7-in. band of cartilage sounds like one of those ideas more intriguing in the conception than the execution. Once the unusual premise has been established, what's left to do? A number...