Inmate asks for electric chair execution over lethal injection

Lawyer for Tennessee double murderer Edmund Zagorski says he thinks that would be "lesser of two evils"

• Oct 9, 2018

Man charged in series of shootings that left 3 dead in Kansas City area

Police released one victim's name, Angenette Hollins, and county records show the suspect Issac Fisher and Hollins were the parents of a son who died in infancy

• Oct 8, 2018

Bill Cosby's lawyers ask court to throw out conviction

Lawyers argue trial judge made a series of errors, including declaring the comedian a sexually violent predator

• Oct 8, 2018

Inmates find unique escape means: trash cans

Two minimum security inmates broke out of Louisville, Kentucky jail as they worked in kitchen

• Oct 8, 2018

Emmy-winner Katt Williams jailed on assault charges in Oregon

Williams, 47, came to Portland to perform in a comedy show Friday; an arraignment is scheduled for Monday

• Oct 7, 2018

Officer who killed Tamir Rice hired by rural police force

Tamir, 12, was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in 2014 when he was shot by Loehmann, who is white

• Oct 6, 2018

Advancements in DNA testing helped authorities link 3 deaths to killer

An Arkansas man who killed himself during a 1999 police standoff at a motel was a killer and rapist, authorities said

• Oct 6, 2018

One condemned inmate kills another in rare death row slaying

It was the first slaying of a death row inmate in California in more than 20 years, officials said

• Oct 6, 2018

Chicago cop guilty of second-degree murder in Laquan McDonald death

The shooting and the city's delay in releasing police footage sparked outrage across the city in 2015

• Oct 5, 2018

Dismissed jurors in murder trial say Chicago cop likely guilty

White Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014

• Oct 5, 2018

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