death row

Prosecutors indicated last year they intend to have Eaton put to death.

An appeals court ruled in 2019 that prosecutors could again pursue death for Eaton.

Attorneys for the state argued the execution policy is exempt from those requirements.

In a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Noem said the state Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed Rhines' application for clemency in December and denied it.

A federal judge has given lawyers until early next year to submit written arguments about whether Wyoming's lone death row inmate should be put to death.

A psychiatrist who evaluated Wyoming's lone death row inmate before his state court trial nearly 10 years ago says evidence unearthed by the inmate's new legal team indicates he suffers from mental illness.

A lengthy hearing has begun in Cheyenne as Wyoming's only death row inmate challenges the constitutionality of his death sentence.

A federal judge has set aside two weeks for a hearing on claims by Wyoming's lone death row inmate that he didn't get a fair trial before a jury sentenced him to death nearly ten years ago.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Lawyers for Wyoming's lone death row inmate are telling a federal judge that their client didn't get a fair trial. Dale Wayne Eaton is challenging the constitutionality of the state death sentence he received in the 1988 rape and murder of an 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell of Billings, Mont...

Wyoming's only inmate on death row continues to claim he didn't get a fair trial. Dale Wayne Eaton was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for raping and killing 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell. His attorneys have filed more court claims that Eaton should get a new sentencing hearing because of an error by his trial attorney and because a prosecutor didn't disclose a working relationship he h