Texas executes third convict this month
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Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother.
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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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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 confessed serial killer due to be paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman 25 years ago.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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In the past 45 years, Tennessee has executed one death row inmate. On Tuesday, the state was preparing to administer lethal injection to two condemned murderers on the same day.
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A decade after Texas tripled its prison  capacity, the state is once again facing a shortage of space in  its penal system as the number of inmates continues to grow.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1993 robbery was  executed on Tuesday by lethal injection.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas on Tuesday executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A prisoner convicted of  killing a man during a 1994 robbery was put to death on  Wednesday in the first of two scheduled executions this week in  Texas.
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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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News directors: UPDATES with additional details JARRATT, Va.  _ A Halifax County man who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a driveway was executed tonight.
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Ronald Isley has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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By Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--Did you hear the one about the Death Row inmate who wanted to tell a joke at his execution? It's not funny.   Patrick Knight, Texas inmate No. 999072, is scheduled to die June 26 for killing his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, in 1991.
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Texas&#039;s Railroad Killer, a drifter who authorities say killed at least 15 people as he made his way around the country by freight train, awaited execution Tuesday.