New Jersey will become the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty under a measure lawmakers approved Thursday and the governor intends to sign within days. ...more

December 14, 2007

Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, hardly looking like someone who could have been involved in the brutal killing of John Benjamin. ...more

December 13, 2007

The second of two men charged in the slaying of John Benjamin heads to trial this morning in Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Court. ...more

December 11, 2007

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Zephyrhills man accused of killing his father and his father's live-in girlfriend. ...more

November 14, 2007

DADE CITY - Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Zephyrhills man accused of killing his father and his father's live-in girlfriend. Kyle Aric Thomas, 30, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty. ...more

November 13, 2007

Joanna Herman had no doubt who beat her Dec. 11, 2004. It was Lawrence Tener, she said from the witness stand Thursday. ...more

November 2, 2007