Pig farm killer appeals verdict
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Lawyers for Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton file an appeal against his six murder convictions.
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A state appeals court overturned the conviction of Martin H. Tankleff in the grisly murders of his parents in 1988.
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The court reinstated a death sentence for a rapist and murderer whose appeal over the exclusion of a juror had succeeded in lower courts.
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A Scot who was on death row in the US is to attend an appeal hearing which should see him released.
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An appeals court upheld the murder convictions of two white men for killing a black woman during 1969 race riots, saying the defendants failed to show they were harmed by the 32-year delay in the case.
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A teenager jailed over the death of sixth-former Ben Bellamy wins his appeal against a manslaughter conviction.
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A federal appeals court cleared the  way on Friday for Connecticut to execute a serial killer who  wants to die but gave the man's father a last-minute chance to  ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
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A man convicted of killing a police officer won a reprieve a day before his scheduled execution, after his lawyers argued that several witnesses had recanted or changed their testimony.
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An appeal hearing agrees to Kenny Richey's release from prison after the Scot spent 20 years on death row.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.
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The killer of a London head teacher loses an appeal against a decision returning him to closed prison.
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The murderer of an entire family is to apply to the Court of Appeal for leave to try to get his conviction overturned.
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A pig farmer accused in the deaths of women from a gritty Vancouver neighborhood told an undercover police officer he wanted to kill 75 but planned to take a break after one more slaying made it "an even 50," according to a jail cell video shown at his trial Tuesday.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Prosecutors are acting strategically by appealing Canadian serial killer Robert "Willie" Pickton's conviction on reduced murder charges, a senior provincial official said on Monday.
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VANCOUVER, Canada  - A pig farmer accused of being Canada&#39;s most prolific serial killer could be tried for the murder of as many as 31 women, most of them prostitutes, prosecutors said.
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A pig farmer alleged to be Canada's worst serial killer denies six charges of murder at a court in Vancouver
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A pig farmer alleged to be Canada's worst serial killer will be tried first on six of the 26 murder counts he faces.