CORRECTION - Tennessee executes child killer in electric chair
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(Corrects spelling of Raybin in third paragraph) NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Tennessee used its electric chair for the first time in 47 years on Wednesday to execute a man who killed his three sons and their half-sister.
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A 15-year-old boy who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents and burn their house down was found guilty of murder Tuesday and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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LONDON -- On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial. She was one of several British mothers who lost one or more children in infancy and were convicted of murder.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - 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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On Sunday, Aug. 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, Iran, was executed by hanging. During her trial for charges of &quot;engaging in acts incompatible with chastity,&quot; the teenage victim did not have a lawyer.
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(Corrects headline and paragraph 2 to show cameraman died, not reporter)
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News directors: UPDATES with additional details JARRATT, Va.  _ A Halifax County man who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a driveway was executed tonight.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A dairy truck driver with a grudge burst into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday and killed three girls execution style before committing suicide in the third deadly U.S. school shooting in the past week, authorities said.
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A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state's first execution in 60 years.
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McALESTER, Oklahoma  - Oklahoma executed a   confessed child murderer on Thursday for the 1997 beating death   of his 13-month-old daughter.
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A 7-year-old girl shot by a milk truck driver at an Amish schoolhouse died early today, raising the death toll in the attack to six. Pennsylvania state troopers confirmed the deaths of five girls and the shooter, who took over the school, lined up girls at the blackboard, tied them up and shot them.
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(corrects to show event is not a holiday party for children, correction from source)
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SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said they lied under pressure from...
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The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment, outlawing the electric chair in the only state that still used it as its sole means of execution.
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the murder of an eight-months-pregnant woman in Missouri and the abduction of her fetus. After a 24-hour search, the premature baby
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1993 robbery was  executed on Tuesday by lethal injection.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a mechanic on Wednesday who was convicted of murdering a taxi driver, marking the second of three planned executions this week.