Court to Join Int'l Death Penalty Debate
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The Supreme Court waded into a fierce international debate Friday over how the United States prosecutes foreigners in death penalty cases, agreeing to hear the case of a Mexican man in an unexpected move that expands the court's examination of fairness in capital punishment.
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On Monday, the court hears arguments on whether Kentucky's lethal injection is too painful.
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The Supreme Court returned to work Monday to hear pleas from death-row inmates to force states to use different drugs or tighten their procedures to reduce the risk that prisoners will suffer excruciating pain during their executions.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states&#39; executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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Hoping to bring capital punishment to Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney is preparing to file a death penalty bill early next year that he says is so carefully written it will guarantee only the guilty are executed.
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The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees who will likely face war-crimes charges would present new challenges to a troubled system that has yet to begin a single trial.
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Scott Peterson's attorney wants a new jury in a different county to decide whether the former fertilizer salesman gets the death penalty or life in prison without parole for killing his wife and the fetus she carried.
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A court mulls a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a death row appeal from a Pennsylvania man who says jurors should have been told they could have sentenced him to prison without parole.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 17--Attorneys for two death row inmates have moved the death penalty debate from one obscure state agency to another by filing a petition with the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it  would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the  crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital  punishment is carried out in the United States.
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The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of which crimes are punishable by death.
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China's top court orders judges to be more sparing  with the death penalty, a key source of international worry.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 &#151; the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to ban the death penalty for juveniles who kill, one of the highest-profile questions confronting the justices as they continue re-examining who is subject to capital punishment.