For kidnapping, rape, murder and burning a mother of three:

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People strongly support it.

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Cummings’ defense attorneys had hoped to spare Rickey Cummings the death sentence, telling jurors that the death penalty should be reserved for the worst of the worst.

Prosecutors countered that the 23-year-old alleged Bloods gang member’s “callous, blood-thirsty” actions, plus an escalating spiral of violence, make him an ideal candidate for execution.

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Murder of Peace Officer

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said this morning that she has decided to seek the death penalty against Brandon Montgomery Daniel, who police say fatally shot Austin police officer Jaime Padron earlier this year.

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Respect for the Law

When the verdict was read by a court clerk at 11 a.m. after a little more than a day of deliberations, Burris chuckled briefly and exclaimed, "Yes!" In the court audience, Walker clenched her fist.

After jurors filed out, Burris sought the spotlight again, saying, "I'm going to Death Row, but there is no death penalty. So I'm fine with it."

He was referring to the fact that executions have been on hold in California since 2006, when a federal judge ordered the state to improve staff training and procedures for lethal injections.

Then, turning in his seat at the defense table, Burris began to curse the victims and their relatives. He told one of Everette's brothers, Ron Everette of Richmond, "Your brother's got a bullet in his brain."

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Killing a guard during escape while serving sentence for murder

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Criminal history, Violence

The prosecution on Wednesday described the long violent criminal history of Hirschfield and the horrible impacts his crimes have had on the victims and their families.

However, the defense said he was a product of a cruel and abusive childhood, and his life should be spared.

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Killing your Roommate

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Up for discussion in Iowa?

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Kidnapping, Rape, Murder (Decapitation)

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Drug Deal Gone Bad x 3

Even in Connecticut (where the DP was abolished recently).

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For killing your kids

Jurors who convicted a Scottsdale man in the 2010 shooting deaths of his two young sons now say he deserves the death penalty.

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Public Support

Sixty percent of adults in the poll say Maryland law should allow for the death penalty; 36 percent support replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole, as O’Malley advocates.

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More Public Support (murder of child)

Iowa hasn’t witnessed an execution in nearly a half-century, but nearly two-thirds of Iowans think it’s now time to reinstate the death penalty under some circumstances.

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Torture of Disabled Woman

A Pennsylvania jury on Thursday decided that Ricky Smyrnes should die for the torture murder of a mentally challenged woman in a Greensburg apartment three years ago.

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Prevention

It's a shocking case: a convicted double-murderer is released from prison, and later calls police to tell them he had killed again. Vallejo's Dennis Stanworth is one of dozens of California inmates released from death row in the years after a 1972 Supreme Court decision overturning the death penalty.

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Murder of Federal Employees

A federal prosecutor told a judge Friday that he will pursue the death penalty against a former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee postal workers.

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Murder of a Guard

An Arizona murderer has been identified as the suspect in the killing of a corrections officer at the U.S. Penitentiary in Canaan last month.

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Mass Murder

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Rape of Baby

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