NC Med Board to appeal executions ruling
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The state Medical Board will appeal a judge's decision that the panel overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s Department of Health has been ordered to draw up guidelines on when abortion can be carried out. The Court of Appeal in the North made the order.
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court will rule on  Wednesday on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death  for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus  following a report of a deal for their release.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
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Several Supreme Court justices questioned yesterday whether a challenge to Kentucky's lethal-injection process brought by two death row inmates presents enough evidence to decide whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Two men jailed for life for killing rival drug dealers will have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether the commonly used lethal injection method of execution for death row inmates violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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A judge ruled Tuesday that a confessed serial killer &#151; set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years &#151; is mentally competent and can forgo further appeals of his death sentence.
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Connecticut prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to override a judge's decision that allowed an admitted serial killer's execution to be delayed.
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The state Board of Pardons and Paroles met behind closed doors Monday to decide whether a convicted police killer who insists he is innocent should be given a reprieve or executed Tuesday as scheduled.
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The man found guilty of murdering teacher Jane Longhurst is to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
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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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A federal judge who imposed a moratorium on executions in California ruled Friday that the state's method of lethal injection is unconstitutional because it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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A US death row inmate in Florida, whose January execution was delayed at the last minute to allow him to contest the state's lethal execution method as inhumane, faces execution Wednesday after losing a series of court appeals.
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By Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 12--FEB.
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday begin hearing arguments on the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.