Update: Executions Halted
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FLORIDA governor Jeb Bush suspended all state executions after an expert said prison chiefs botched the insertion of needles when a killer was put to death on Wednesday. It took 34 minutes for Angel Diaz, above, to die - twice as long as usual - and heneeded two doses of chemicals.
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An English court postponed judgement on whether to quash a decision by prosecutors not to charge the police officers who shot dead a Brazilian man they mistook for a suicide bomber last year.
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Â· Government ordered to give reason for crackdownÂ· President awaits key court ruling on re-election bid
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The men can be detained until 1.30pm on October 1 after an extension was issued under the Terrorism Act. Three of the men were arrested in a &quot;pre--planned&quot; operation by officers from the Metropolitan Police&#39;s
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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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Six prison workers were shot to death and left outside a lockup in this border city, officials said Thursday, following a crackdown against drug gangs at jails across the nation.
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An appeals court in Maryland ruled Tuesday that state executions cannot proceed until a legislative panel reviews parts of the manual that spell out the protocol for lethal injections.
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At Christopher Newton's execution by lethal injection last month, it took 90 minutes and at least 10 stabs of the needle for the execution team to find a vein. The procedure was so drawn out the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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Â· Â£500,000 student support payments to prisoners suspended Â· Opposition calls situation a fiasco
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend 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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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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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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Executions are dropping as China's notorious capital punishment system gets an overhaul in the runup to the Beijing Games
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Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
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Â· Black officer to reignite racism rowÂ· Killings prompt call for clampdown
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The retrial of Peruvian guerrilla leader Abimael Guzman is halted for a second time in a week.