Condemned man to tell joke at execution
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.
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If serial killer Michael Ross gets his wish, he will become the first person executed in New England in 45 years. Connecticut's governor and most state residents agree he should be.
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Have you heard the one about the presidential candidate who told such great jokes the American people elected him?
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Â· Victim blamed by others also injured in explosion Â· Court told of joke as envelope was opened
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As the political establishment chuckles over his recent gaffes, the surging underdog candidate hopes to have the last laugh
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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A new memoir gives us the hilarious, excruciating life story of the man who wrote The Corrections
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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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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio - A man who shot his Great Dane in the head may have his jail sentence reduced if he dresses up as a dog.  Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti offered Thursday to cut Robert M.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A man who joked to friends that he would eat a fish live choked to death when the creature squirmed and lodged in his throat, police and coroner's officials said Thursday.
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A man convicted of killing three people, eating the flesh of his youngest victim, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing. His chuckles come from nowhere, inmates say, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling.