Phillips winner gives Wigley a stay of execution
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Southampton manager Steve Wigley breathed a sigh of relief after earning his first league victory at the 11th attempt in the 2-1 defeat of rivals Portsmouth.
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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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Englandâs Ian Poulter won the season-ending Volvo Masters at Valderrama today after a play-off with Ryder Cup team-mate Sergio Garcia.
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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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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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RULE Of Law held off a dramatic late surge by joint-favourite Quiff to win the betfair.com St Leger at Doncaster yesterday. Having increased the pace from around three furlongs out, jockey Kerrin McEvoy faced
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A Wandsworth man is recovering after being tortured and left for dead by bouncers in Latvia.Comment
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Southampton chairman Rupert Lowe wants everyone at the club to start focusing on improving their poor position in the Barclays Premiership now the immediate future of head coach Steve Wigley has been secured.
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MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 24 -- A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Wednesday for Daniel Lee Siebert, a terminally ill murderer who said his cancer medication would interact with a lethal injection, inflicting unnecessary pain.
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Former England paceman James Kirtley buried the nightmare of his suspension earlier this season to bowl Sussex to a thrilling 15-run win over Lancashire in the the CetG Trophy final at Lord's.
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order staying the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer, as part of its decision to review the legality of lethal injections nationwide.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors' 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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John Lennonâs killer Mark Chapman will not be released from prison after being denied parole for the third time. Chapman stood before a parole board yesterday (October 5) who were to decide if Chapman would
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It was as close to a guarantee as you could make, and Plaxico Burress was given a chance to back off.
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THE threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages last night as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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US banker Frank Quattrone wins the right to stay out of jail pending an appeal against an 18-month sentence for obstruction of justice.
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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.