Virginia death row inmate gets stay of execution
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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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 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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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the pending execution of a Virginia man convicted of beating a co-worker to death in 2001 for drug money.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man, who became pen  pals with actress Susan Sarandon while on death row, was put to  death by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a  convenience store clerk during a 1985 robbery.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida prison officials   on Wednesday executed a 48-year-old death row inmate for the   1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a case that   ignited debate over the use of lethal injection.
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A pending execution in Connecticut will mark the first time in more than 40 years that an inmate has been put to death north or east of Pennsylvania.
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A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of a  1992 murder was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday despite  questions about the evidence against him and pleas from the  family of his presumed victim to spare his life.
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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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.