Stephens, who was charged with the killing of Stanley Wilcox in 2022, faced the possibility of either the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted. However, after more than seven hours of deliberation, a lone holdout juror prevented the panel from deciding, leading to the mistrial.
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The story follows Sweeney Todd — a man with a seriously unfortunate past who murders any and everyone via slitting their throats in his barbershop. Somehow the plot only gets crazier from there according to Keller senior Logan Allen, who plays the titular role of Sweeney Todd.
Historic Waco Executive Director Erik Swanson said the plot of the mystery was based on the night that Bonnie Parker helped Clyde Barrow escape from McLennan County Jail in 1930.
The DA’s office dropped the charges against Scott and Nichols because they concluded that doing so would ensure justice. Rather than aiming for convictions, they saw the case as an act of “self-defense and defense of others,” committing to the proper application of the law.
My heart shattered when I read the news about Laken Riley. Her murder was the first homicide on the University of Georgia campus in almost 30 years, and it should serve as a humbling reminder that it can happen anywhere. The twists and turns of Cameron Park and the Bear Trail are certainly not much different terrain.
The Bible does not reject capital punishment, but it does provide requirements for it. A person can be killed justly if they have killed unjustly, but they must also be treated with humanity in the process.
One of the biggest cases known to South Carolina just closed with a verdict many people saw from the start, and Netflix is shining light on the secrets of this family.
A Houston woman was convicted of murder Tuesday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, hitting him at least 25 times in the face.
At sundown on May 8, 1916, Lucy Fryer, the wife of a well-known cotton farmer, was found beaten to death in the doorway of her house. Shortly after, police took her husband’s 17-year-old African-American farmhand, Jesse Washington, into custody.
A shooting at a smoke shop left one teen dead and another injured Monday morning.
Waco police officers responding to reports of a shooting at Eddies Smoke Shop on Waco Drive found two individuals — Dhaodrique Eastland, 17, and another 19-year-old victim both from Waco — with gunshot wounds to the upper torso and forearm, respectively.
Both were rushed to the hospital, where Eastland was pronounced dead.
Anthony Johnson, a 43-year-old Waco resident, has been charged in connection with the death of Richard Watson. Watson, a 54-year-old Waco resident, was pronounced dead August 22 at Hillcrest Hospital. It was the third killing this year in Waco.
