Butler County prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing his father and stepmother, and scattering their bodies around their estate as part of a cover-up. Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Simon filed notice in court this week of the aggravating circumstances that if proved, would qualify Colin Abbott, 41, of Randolph, N.J., for the death penalty. The factors include that Abbott is accused of killing both Kenneth Abbott, 65, and Celeste Abbott, 55, and that he killed them as part of the commission of another felony.
Criminal law - Aggravated murder - Death penalty upheld, when - Penalties and sentencing - "Aggravating circumstances" against which mitigating evidence is to be weighed are limited to * * * .
[Christina Finney] called police while she, her husband and three children followed Oriikoff's getaway car. At one point, she said, he "slowed down to 25 miles an hour to obey the speed limit." Police took up the chase, which ended after Oriikoff abandoned his car when his pursuers spotted his head bobbing up and down in the York River behind a crab pot marker buoy. "When we had him out," Gloucester Sheriff Robin P. Stanaway related, "he said, 'You got me.' The lawyer for a Louisiana man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman argued that his client should not face the death penalty because taking the victim's arm and a tattoo from one of her legs did not constitute robbery. Noting that the death penalty requires "aggravating circumstances," which prosecutors insisted were armed ...
... practice, and current writings on the death penalty. Relying on the Fourteenth Amendment's Du... in order to weigh the mitigating circumstances of individual defendants who fall within the death... framework for consideration of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and the appropriate s...
...Finding three aggravating circumstances that were not outweighed by mitigati... alia, capital murder and sentenced him to death. Marsh claimed on direct appeal that Kan. Stat. An... by directing imposition of the death penalty when aggravating and mitigating circumstances are ...
..., the jury found four "special circumstances," each of which rendered him death eligible under Cal. Penal Code Ann. §190.2. At the penalty phase, the jury was instructed to consider a list ... channel this function by specifying aggravating factors (sometimes identical to the eligibility fa...
Aggravated first-degree murder First-degree premeditated murder in Washington may be punishable by the death penalty if prosecutors can prove one or more aggravating circumstances.* These circumstances include:
A Fayette County man accused of killing two people last year wants a judge to quash the aggravating circumstances in the case that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted. Edward A. Belch, 45, of McClellandtown, is accused of ramming his pickup truck into a motorcycle ridden by Belch's ex-girlfriend and a man.
... Judge: Robert Farmer was sentenced to death in Nevada in 1984 after a three-judge post-convict... found the existence of two statutory aggravating circumstances, both of which were based on the mur...Nevada now seeks to reimpose the death penalty on Farmer, using different statutory aggravating c...
Greene County prosecutors on Thursday filed a notice of the aggravating circumstances they would argue in favor of the death penalty if a jury convicts Jeffrey R. Martin of the first-degree murder of 12-year-old Gabrielle Bechen. Gabrielle's body was found June 17 in a shallow grave on a rural horse farm about a mile from her family's Dunkard Township home near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Her disappearance on June 13, after she left home on an all-terrain vehicle, sparked an intensive search by hundreds of volunteers and investigators from neighboring states.
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