Stabber

A twisted ‘femme fatale’ who lured a university student to her home for sex before stabbing him in a brutal attack was jailed for 27 months today.

Emily Goode, 28, plunged a six-inch kitchen knife into Josh Nock’s back before telling police she was defending herself when he tried to rape her.

Raven-haired Goode took Mr Nock to her house in Brompton Drive, Brierley Hill, West Mids., after meeting him in a bar in October last year.

After the horrific attack Mr Nock managed to escape by climbing out of a window and scaled a fence and shed before calling police while dripping with blood.

But when officers arrived to take his statement they arrested him after Goode also called 999 and claimed she was the victim of a sexual assault.

Bishop

 A former college professor who killed three people and wounded three others during a faculty meeting wanted to go to death row and had to be convinced by her parents to accept a plea deal that spared her life, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Amy Bishop, 47, didn't want to live among other inmates because she was terrified of being sexually abused in Alabama's lone women's prison, defense attorney Roy Miller told The Associated Press.

"She wanted to die," he said. Bishop also didn't want to "live in a chicken coop the rest of her life," he said.

A judge sentenced Bishop, a Harvard-educated biologist, to life without parole Monday after jurors convicted her during an abbreviated trial. She pleaded guilty earlier this month, but state law required a trial because she admitted to a capital murder charge.

Hetzel

Michelle Hetzel may have been a teenager when she killed her lover in 2000 in Easton, but she was no child, according to a Northampton County Court ruling this week.

Judge Edward Smith said he plans to dismiss a new appeal by Hetzel, who argued that she falls under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a mandatory term of life in prison without parole for murder.

Hetzel was 18 — an adult under the law — when she and her husband lured 19-year-old Devon Guzman of Forks Township to their south Easton home and slashed her throat. Hetzel and her now ex-husband, Brandon Bloss, were convicted of first-degree murder at trial and are serving life sentences.

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Conch Key

A 62-year-old Conch Key fisherwoman who goes by the nickname "Sea Hag" shot a man to death Sunday night after the victim refused to give her a beer, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Carolyn Dukeshire, a commercial fisherwoman, is being held on a first-degree murder complaint after allegedly shooting her neighbor, 64-year-old Martin Mazur, five times in the abdomen, back and arm.

A witness to the shooting, Casey Whippo, 30, told deputies he and Mazur were sitting outside Mazur's house at 53 N. Conch Ave. drinking beer when Dukeshire, who lives down the street at 70 Conch Ave., walked around the side of the house and asked if she could have a beer, according to Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Deputy Becky Herrin. When Mazur refused, Dukeshire allegedly shot him repeatedly, hitting him twice in the abdomen, twice in the back and once in wrist.

Bishop

 Huntsville's most prominent murder trial in a generation could take place twice, experts say, unless attorneys for Amy Bishop and the State of Alabama resolve a dispute over who will pay for expert witnesses.

But state officials said late Friday that they may have found a fix, if medicalexperts are willing to wait on deferred payments.

The stakes are high, as prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty when trial begins in September, and a poor provision for the defense would bolster an appeal.

Bishop's attorneys are arguing that the Harvard-trained biologist, who is charged with fatally shooting three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is not guilty by reason of insanity.