U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Connecticut Execution Stay
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A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for Connecticut death row inmate Michael Ross in a move that could clear the way for New England's first execution in 45 years.
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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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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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The Supreme Court accepted an appeal Tuesday from Arizona, which wants to execute a twice-convicted killer who says his lawyer didn't do enough to ward off a death sentence.
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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 US Supreme Court questioned on Wednesday whether world opinion against the death penalty for juveniles should influence its decision on the constitutionality of executing
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on  Monday that an attorney does not have to get a defendant's  explicit consent to concede guilt at a trial when the client  faces a possible death sentence.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her baby daughter had already been obtained.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for some immigrants convicted of drug possession under state law to remain in the United States rather than being subject to deportation.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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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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The court reinstated a death sentence for a rapist and murderer whose appeal over the exclusion of a juror had succeeded in lower courts.
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A Supreme Court decision makes it easier to remove potential jurors who express ambivalence about the death penalty.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.    The court has outlawed executions for those 15 and under when they committed their crimes...