S.D. may see first execution since 1947
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This Old West town where Jack McCall killed gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok while he played poker in 1876 again figures in a capital punishment case in South Dakota, which may be facing its first execution in 59 years.
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The state carried out only its second execution in 45 years early Wednesday after a federal appeals court panel lifted a stay of execution granted by one of its own judges.
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The US Supreme Court will on Monday begin hearing arguments on the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
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To many Americans, the execution last week of Chinaâs former top food and drug official may seem extreme, but severe sanctions for bribe-taking have a long and bloody history.
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Gov. Mike Rounds halted South Dakota's first execution in 59 years just hours before it was scheduled Tuesday, saying the state law detailing how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete.
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A pending execution in Connecticut will mark the first time in more than 40 years that an inmate has been put to death north or east of Pennsylvania.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Jan 17 (IPS) - The abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan --  the 135th state to abandon state-sanctioned killing --  effectively means the entire central Asian region has now  consigned to history a punishment that was strongly associated  with the days of the Soviet empire.
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The state becomes the first in modern times to abolish capital punishment, as momentum builds across the country to reconsider seldom-used death-penalty statutes
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Monday she will not interfere with plans to put a serial killer to death next month in what would be the first execution in New England since 1960.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 12 -- A shootout in which police killed 11 gunmen apparently planning to rob a truck transporting money has prompted widespread applause in South Africa and spurred calls to lift a 12-year-old prohibition on the death penalty.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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S.D. is eyed for a huge refinery that would be the country's first in 31 years.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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An unusual verdict in the case of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover opens up possible grounds for appeal if he's sentenced to death, some legal experts say.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Lethal injection, when used for the first time in Texas nearly 22 years ago, was touted as a more humane way to execute prisoners than the firing squad, hanging, the gas chamber or even the electric chair...
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The killing of a Lebanon minister could be the first step in a coup, a top US diplomat tells the BBC.