Ohio governor commutes death sentence
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Death row inmate John Spirko wanted a pardon or the chance to leave prison and prove his innocence. He got neither, though he did escape execution.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - A top Republican fund-raiser who   is the leading figure in an Ohio political scandal was   sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison on Tuesday for   funneling money to President George W. Bush's 2004 reelection   campaign.
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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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Huntsville -- Governor Rick Perry is considering whether to delay Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.
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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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"I'm New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and I should be dead." So begins Corzine's public service announcement promoting seat belt use, which is being released Thursday. The governor was seriously injured in an April 12 car crash in which he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
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A drunken driver was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years to life in prison for a rare murder conviction in the deaths of a limousine chauffeur and a 7-year-old flower girl heading home from a wedding.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active capital punishment state.
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Andre Luckett has forgiven the accused  killer of his father. Now he wants Texas, the nation's leading  death penalty state, to do the same.
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A British citizen released from jail after spending more than two decades on Ohio's death row was forced to wait before returning home when his flight was canceled Tuesday because of bad weather.
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Death penalty opponents called on the state to halt executions after prison staff struggled to find suitable veins on a condemned man's arm to deliver the lethal chemicals.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Twenty-three people who took plea agreements to avoid prison time in Franklin County will get a taste of life behind bars this Christmas - by spending the holiday in jail.
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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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Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Friday commuted the sentences of three inmates, including that of a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed when she was 15 years old.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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ATHENS -- Tammy Crow had to put it all aside for about four minutes. The sports utility vehicle veering off a snowy road. The two people who died. The three-month jail sentence awaiting back home.
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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.