31-year-old Derek Medina incriminated himself on Facebook, posting a picture of his wife's blood-stained body on his Facebook page, and said that he killed her. Medina turned himself in to police, according to his arrest affidavit. He was charged with first degree murder
John Henry Spooner, a 76-year-old Milwaukee Wisconsin man, was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting his 13-year-old neighbor whom he suspected had broken into his home and stole his weapons. The trial now enters a second phase in which the defense will seek toprove that he was mentally ill at the time of the shooting.
Jodi Arias and her attorneys are returning to court on Tuesday in an effort to throw out the jury's finding that made her eligible for the death penalty. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8 in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander in Mesa Arizona. About two week ago, the jury that found her guilty of killing Alexander failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether to sentence Arias to life in prison or receive the death penalty.
Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor, was convicted of first-degree in three counts of murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three babies and one adult patient at his inner-city clinic. His sentence is not yet decided, as jurors will reconvene on May 21 to consider whether he should be executed. Gosnell was acquitted of one count of first-degree murder in a fourth abortion.
