Death row case 'to be reviewed'
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An MEP says he has won a pledge from the president of Pakistan to review the case of a Leeds man on death row.
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The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on lethal injections that could cause us to rethink our haphazard system of capital punishment
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a death row appeal from a Pennsylvania man who says jurors should have been told they could have sentenced him to prison without parole.
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The man convicted of murdering teacher Jane Longhurst is due to hear if his appeal has been successful.
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Families of victims and offenders weigh in on pending Supreme Court case.
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The US Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a case on whether the constitution permits extending capital punishment beyond murder to a man convicted of raping, but not killing a child.
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A retired soldier should face a court-martial where the death penalty could be ordered for a 1985 triple murder, according to an Army investigating officer's recommendation released late Saturday.
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments on the legality of the death penalty for criminals under age 18 in a case that has received international attention.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, in which he was sentenced this month to death by hanging, was marred by flaws so serious that they undermined the trial's fairness and called into question the verdict, an international human rights watchdog group said in a...
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The law protecting people who intervene to stop crime will be reviewed, the justice secretary will say.
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The Supreme Court considered Monday whether an almost all-white Texas jury unfairly convicted and sentenced a black man to death, the latest in a string of capital cases to reach the court from the state that executes more people than any other.
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The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of which crimes are punishable by death.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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A review of the law of murder is to begin next year, the Home Secretary David Blunkett announces.
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Briton due to be released after spending 20 years on death row in US taken to hospital with chest pains
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The use of the death penalty dropped this year for the fifth year in a row, as questions grow about the guilt of the condemned and more states take a hard look at their use of executions, says a report by a group critical of the punishment.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the appeal of a Mexican national on death row in Texas, stepping into an international debate over the legal rights of foreigners in capital punishment cases.