Governor halts execution for 120 days so evidence can be retested
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Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton on Wednesday, one day after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that she be temporarily spared while her attorneys retest crucial evidence.
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Gov. Mark R. Warner is reviewing a proposal to test random samples of old DNA evidence from thousands of crime scenes after genetic tests exonerated a man who had served 22 years in prison for two rapes, the third such reversal in Virginia.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois&#39; governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence - this time in Missouri - if convicted of murdering his boss in St.
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Huntsville, Texas -- Governor Rick Perry has halted Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.
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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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Posted December 1, 2004 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday halted the execution of Frances Newton, who was scheduled to be the first Black woman executed in the state.
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The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its call for a nationwide moratorium on executions, based on a three-year study of death penalty systems in eight states that found unfairness and other flaws.
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Prosecutors and Defense attorneys have just three hours to give their final statements
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SAN JOSE, California  - The judge who effectively shut down California's death row in February said on Friday his ruling on whether the state's use of lethal injection is legal would hinge on evidence of how alert an inmate is as the toxic drugs take effect.
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Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends executions in the US state after a botched death by lethal injection.
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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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The Supreme Court turned down moves to postpone Connecticut's execution of a convicted serial killer. But state officials delayed the execution until Monday.
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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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PERM. Feb 12 (Interfax) - The trial of a school director accused of using unlicensed computer software has been postponed until February 14.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered his staff on Monday to fix the state's use of lethal injection for executions so it satisfies a federal judge who declared it unconstitutional.
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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.