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Public defenders accuse judge of wanting Lovell dead

Last updated Friday, April 13, 2012 - 6:39pm

OGDEN — Death row candidate Doug Lovell’s public defenders are trying to remove the judge in the case, accusing him of bias.

The lawyers seek to disqualify 2nd District Judge Michael Lyon from sitting for Lovell’s coming trial for the 27-year-old murder of Joyce Yost, of South Ogden. Lovell was once sentenced to death for her killing after describing how he did it on the stand.

“In a case where the stakes are at their highest, the risk is too great to have the proceedings presided over by a judge who appears to want what the victims want: Lovell dead,” reads the motion.

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FILE - This undated file photo released on Tuesday Feb. 21,2012, provided by the Utah Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Michael Archuleta. A judge has halted the firing squad execution of the 50-year-old Archuleta convicted of torturing and murdering a Utah college student in 1988. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell canceled Archuleta's April 5 execution date so he can pursue an appeal in federal court. Archuleta's most recent appeal failed in November. (AP Photo/Utah Department of Corrections,File)

Judge halts firing squad execution for Utah death row inmate

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 10:02am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has halted the firing squad execution of a 50-year-old man convicted of torturing and murdering a Utah college student in 1988.

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Utah death row inmate loses claim of ineffective lawyer

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 3:57pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man has lost a 17-year legal fight over his murder conviction, although he still has options for postponing his execution date.

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In this photo released on Tuesday Feb. 21,2012 provided by the Utah Department of Corrections showing death row inmate Michael Archuleta Archuleta is asking a Utah judge for a stay of an April 5, 2012 execution by firing squad while he pursues an appeal in the federal courts.†(AP Photo/Utah Department of Corrections)

Utah death row inmate seeks stay of execution

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:41pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A death row inmate is asking a Utah judge for a stay of an April 5 execution by firing squad while he pursues a review of his state conviction and sentence in the federal courts.

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Execution date set for convicted Utah killer

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has set an April 5 execution date for a Utah State Prison inmate on death row since 1989.

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Danny Hembree,is seen in an undated photo provided by the N.C. Department of Public Safety. Hembree, a death row inmate accused of killing three North Carolina women, has written a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper, saying he’ll spend many years as a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV and enjoying frequent naps. “Kill me if you can, suckers,” Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. wrote in a letter to The Gaston Gazette. A story about the letter and its contents was published on the front page of the Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 edition. Hembree is on North Carolina’s death row for suffocating Heather Catterton, 17, in 2009. He's also accused of killing two other women. (AP Photo/N.C. Department of Public Safety)

Death row inmate taunts, 'Kill me if you can, suckers'

David Zucchino Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 10:46am

DURHAM, N.C. -- Danny Robbie Hembree considers himself a gentleman of leisure. He enjoys color TV, air conditioning and abundant food. He naps pretty much whenever he feels like it.

He also happens to live on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. But that's not a bad thing, he wrote in a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper, the Gaston Gazette.

In fact, Hembree wrote, the state of North Carolina has taken the "death" out of death row.

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Utah death row inmate loses Mormon bias appeal

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 5:25pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a death row inmate who claims the jury selection process in his case unfairly favored Mormons.

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Former death row inmate threatens judge, police say

Jennifer Feehan, Jim Provance Toledo Blade

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:49pm

OTTAWA, Ohio -- Kenneth Richey spent two decades on Ohio's death row after his conviction for setting a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl. Now, less than four years after he was freed, he is charged with threatening a judge.

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Utah high court rejects death row inmate's appeal

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 6:13pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's Supreme Court has denied a death row inmate's request for a new trial of his 1988 murder case on the grounds that he was poorly represented by his previous attorneys.

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Elaborate last-meal request kills privilege for condemned Texas prisoners

McClatchy Newspapers The Dallas Morning News

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 5:51am

AUSTIN, Texas — A gut-busting dinner, including a triple cheeseburger, pizza, fajitas, two chicken-fried steaks and pint of ice cream, sent some Texans over the edge.

Death row inmate Lawrence Brewer’s food order seemed more like a feast fit for an army than a man headed to execution. Now, because of public outrage, it’s last special meal that will be made for condemned prisoners.

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Demonstrators celebrate after receiving inaccurate reports that death row inmate Troy Davis had been granted a stay of execution as they gather for a vigil in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis is facing lethal injection for killing an off-duty Georgia policeman in Savannah -- a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice

Greg Bluestein The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 1:58pm

JACKSON, Ga. -- Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away behind a glass window, MacPhail's son and brother watched in silence.

Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles. They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away.

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