Texas woman&#39;s execution is stayed
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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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Hours before an inmate's scheduled execution, Alabama's governor issued a temporary stay on Thursday so the state could review its method of lethal injection.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former drug   dealer on Thursday for the 1997 murders of a 41-year-old woman   and her 15-year-old son at their home near the south Texas town   of Refugio.
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in an unusual step, recommended on Tuesday that the execution of a 39-year-old woman scheduled for 6 pm on Wednesday be delayed
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A Texas woman facing death by lethal injection has won a last-minute review of her conviction for murder. Frances Newton, 39, was to become the first black woman executed in Texas since the US Civil War ended in 1865.
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MORATORIUM: No prisoner has been put to death in the U.S. since Sept. 25, due to the Supreme Court's current examination of lethal injections.
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Indonesian officials issued a last-minute stay of execution Friday night for three Christian militiamen on death row, but they added that the sentences would still be carried out.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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Governor Rick Perry granted a reprieve for a woman convicted of murdering her husband and two children. Frances Newton was scheduled to be executed last night for those killings.
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Posted December 1, 2004 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday halted the execution of Frances Newton, who was scheduled to be the first Black woman executed in the state.
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The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for a serial killer who wants to be put to death, but another court order continued to block what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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Gov. Rick Perry should delay tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of a Harris County woman who was condemned for the murders of her husband and two children, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Tuesday.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 21--A woman convicted of killing her husband will stay out of jail for four months while she undergoes hip surgery.   Campbell County Circuit Court Judge J.S.
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.