Appeals Court Lifts Inmate's Reprieve
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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An appeals court in Ohio is reported to have overturned the conviction and death sentence on a British man.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A U.S. appeals court reinstated the most serious charge against alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla on Tuesday, reviving a murder-conspiracy count that could send the former "enemy combatant" to prison for life.
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Judiciary Committee grants file swipers a reprieve.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago is jailed for life after changes to the double jeopardy law allowed him to be retried.
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Lawyers for Gen. Augusto Pinochet appealed a judge's decision to place the former Chilean dictator under house arrest, winning him at least another day of freedom.
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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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An appellate court has upheld Ronald Isley's 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from prison guards during a hospital appointment is recaptured.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether federal appeals judges can increase prison sentences of criminal defendants in the absence of a request from prosecutors.
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A federal appeals court today upheld of a new law that strips federal courts of the authority to review the cases of foreign prisoners held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- 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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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen  in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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While other prisoners are lifting weights or playing basketball, Michael Ray is working 40 hours a week, his head buried in legal texts and journals. Over the years, the jailhouse lawyer has helped dozens of fellow inmates file appeals, sometimes with success.
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A child killer received a reprieve Friday from the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled that electrocution, the state's only means of capital punishment, is unconstitutional.
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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.