Stay of Execution for Georgia Man
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Troy Davis, sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of a police officer, gets time to prove he was wrongly convicted
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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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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A Georgia man gave the middle finger to a judge who sentenced him to life in prison plus 40 years for the shooting death of a Savannah debutante during a botched robbery.
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A man is being held on false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy charges after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met online text-messaged his family claiming he was being held against his will on the man's west Georgia farm, police said.
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A court in southern Russia said the only attacker to survive the Beslan school siege deserves the death penalty but sentenced him to life in prison on Friday because Russia has a moratorium on capital punishment.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - A closely divided U.S. Supreme  Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for Connecticut  death row inmate Michael Ross in a move that could clear the  way for New England's first execution in 45 years.
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Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release a young man who was imprisoned for having consensual oral sex with another teenager
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The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release of a man who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was two years older than she was.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday  upheld a stay of execution for convicted serial killer Michael  Ross and sent his case back to a lower federal court to  determine if a public defender may intervene in the process.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.
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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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A defense attorney for a serial killer who wants to be executed said Sunday that he will remain on the case, a day after he asked for a delay so he could explore a possible conflict of interest.
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota  - Just minutes before   prison officials had planned to serve death row inmate Elijah   Page his last meal, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds delayed the   state's first execution in 59 years until at least next July.
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A judge ordered an execution delayed for 60 days Monday so psychiatrists can evaluate a man who wore a Superman T-shirt while representing himself at trial and pleaded with jurors to sentence him to death.
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A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.