Alabama schedules execution despite controversy
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley on Monday rejected calls to postpone this week's execution of convicted serial killer Daniel Lee Siebert despite his terminal cancer and a national controversy over lethal injections.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston is in line to be the third Texas woman in modern times to be executed.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A former oilfield worker who  abducted a woman from a car wash and then murdered her was put  to death by lethal injection on Thursday in the 20th execution  this year in Texas.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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The Supreme Court declined once again yesterday to decide whether a lengthy delay in carrying out a death sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, this time in the case of an Arizona man who murdered two teenage girls.
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An eleventh-hour reprieve in Nevada last night for condemned murderer William Patrick Castillo marked the latest victory for opponents of the death penalty who do not regard lethal injection as the humane method of execution that its supporters say it is.
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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Although execution by lethal injection is under intense scrutiny, five convicted murderers on Utah's death row await that capital penalty.
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The Texas parole board Tuesday recommended delaying the state&#39;s first execution of a black woman to give her lawyers more time to investigate her claims of innocence.
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The Connecticut execution of a serial killer who wants to die is halted less than an hour before it is due to happen.
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Hours before an inmate's scheduled execution, Alabama's governor issued a temporary stay on Thursday so the state could review its method of lethal injection.
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Alabama officials are considering a measure that would move the stateÃ¢ÂÂs 2008 presidential primary from its currently scheduled date of Tuesday, Feb. 5 to Saturday, Feb. 2.
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The state postponed plans Monday to execute a serial killer after he agreed to have his mental competency examined, delaying for at least a month what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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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.