Mother of teen shot to death by police sues (WBZ News Radio Boston) The mother of a teenager shot to death by Plymouth police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The suit filed Monday in federal court in Boston by Denise McGrath names the two officers involved in the shooting, former police chief Robert Pomeroy, and the town as defendants.

Suit blames rest home in death (Gloucester County Times) The Shady Oaks Rest Home failed to prevent the December 2006 murder of Jack Trachtenberg by Sharon Maslanka, a former psychiatric patient with a history of violence, argues a wrongful death suit filed by the Trachtenberg family.

Transit cop gets death threats after shooting (CNN) The officer involved in a New Year's Day shooting that left a passenger dead in a crowded Oakland, California, subway station has received numerous death threats, a transit spokesman said Wednesday.

Parents file lawsuit in medical chopper death (WTHR Indianapolis) The parents of a toddler killed in a medical chopper crash have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. They blame the Hamilton County pilot for the crash.

Mom of teen shot by police sues (7 News Boston) PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- The mother of a teenager shot to death by Plymouth police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Sonoma West News (Sonoma West Times and News) In the latest wrongful death suit against Sonoma County law enforcement, the parents of Jesse Hamilton allege police on Jan. 2, 2008 used “unwarranted and excessive lethal force” when they shot and killed their 24-year-old mentally ill son after he opened his bedroom door inside a Santa Rosa residence and came at officers with a knife.

$25 million claim filed in fatal BART shooting (Napa Valley Register) OAKLAND — Family members of a 22-year-old man fatally shot by a transit officer on New Year’s Day have filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency.

Man wins right to appeal conviction in son's death (Kingston Whig-Standard) A former Belleville man has won the right to appeal his 14-year-old conviction in his infant son's death that is tied to disgraced pathologist Dr. [...]

Mom of teen shot by Plymouth police sues (Boston Herald) PLYMOUTH - The mother of a teenager shot to death by Plymouth police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The suit filed Monday in federal court in Boston by Denise McGrath...

Is the death penalty a dying breed? (Dallas Morning News) Executions nationwide and in Texas were down in 2008. So were death sentences. The numbers don't lie – but not everyone agrees on what they say.