Condemned Woman Given Reprieve in Texas
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Hours before she was to have been executed for the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared on Wednesday when Gov.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former drug   dealer on Thursday for the 1997 murders of a 41-year-old woman   and her 15-year-old son at their home near the south Texas town   of Refugio.
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Texas executed a convicted killer by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1998 murder of a woman whose body he sexually molested after he strangled her to death.
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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.
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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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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of a  1992 murder was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday despite  questions about the evidence against him and pleas from the  family of his presumed victim to spare his life.
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The sister of a woman who murdered her husband says she should face the death penalty.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for a serial killer who wants to be put to death, but another court order continued to block what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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An Alabama death row inmate won a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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The first execution of a black woman in Texas since the American civil war was delayed at the 11th hour yesterday when the state governor granted a reprieve pending new tests on evidence.
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The Texas parole board has recommended delaying the execution of a woman accused of killing her husband and two young children, leaving the chance for a reprieve in the hands of the governor.
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A drifter already serving a life sentence for murder in Montana was given another life sentence Thursday for sexually assaulting and killing a woman at a highway rest stop in Arkansas.
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A woman whose dogs fatally mauled a neighbor could get more prison time, after the California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a trial judge to consider convicting her of second-degree murder rather than involuntary manslaughter.
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For at least a week, authorities say, a young black woman was held captive in a mobile home, forced to eat animal waste, stabbed, choked and repeatedly sexually abused &#151; all while being peppered with a racial slur.
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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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Governor Rick Perry granted a reprieve for a woman convicted of murdering her husband and two children. Frances Newton was scheduled to be executed last night for those killings.