Governor Stays Texas Woman&#39;s Wednesday Execution
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--AUSTIN -- Gov.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--AUSTIN -- Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry's order mandating that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.
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Hours before an inmate's scheduled execution, Alabama's governor issued a temporary stay on Thursday so the state could review its method of lethal injection.
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HUDSON OAKS, Texas  - Three young girls and their mother were found hanged in a mobile home in central Texas but another child, an 8-month-old girl, survived after being discovered dangling by the neck, police said on Tuesday.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - A federal judge on Monday  stayed the execution of a Connecticut serial killer, who had  been scheduled later this week to become the first person put  to death in New England in 45 years.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  killing a bank employee during a 1982 robbery in Dallas was  executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.
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Governor Rick Perry has halted tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston. Perry accepted a recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles that
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida is scheduled to   execute a man on Wednesday, whose case touched off a round of   legal battles over the use of lethal injection to kill   criminals.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Huntsville, Texas -- Governor Rick Perry has halted Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.
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Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man, who became pen  pals with actress Susan Sarandon while on death row, was put to  death by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a  convenience store clerk during a 1985 robbery.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston is in line to be the third Texas woman in modern times to be executed.