death-penalty

Facing Murder Charges? Don't Retain This Lawyer

Jeff Neumann · 05/18/10 05:35AM

Houston attorney Jerry Guerinot has a bad track record of defending capital murder cases in Texas: 20 of his clients have been executed. But he says judges give him the toughest cases: "The easy ones, somehow, never came to me."

Utah's Frontier Justice: Death By Firing Squad

Jeff Neumann · 04/23/10 04:24AM

A death row inmate, when given the choice between execution by lethal injection or firing squad, wants the latter. He is one of four condemned prisoners in Utah who have asked for the option. State politicians fear a spectacle.