Man Sentenced to Death Wins a Reprieve
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Hours before his scheduled execution as an accomplice to murder, Kenneth Foster won a rare commutation today.
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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago is jailed for life after changes to the double jeopardy law allowed him to be retried.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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A man convicted of killing a police officer won a reprieve a day before his scheduled execution, after his lawyers argued that several witnesses had recanted or changed their testimony.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.
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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 Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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A judge ordered an execution delayed for 60 days Monday so psychiatrists can evaluate a man who wore a Superman T-shirt while representing himself at trial and pleaded with jurors to sentence him to death.
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A man was convicted Thursday of the random mutilation killings of a musician and his family, a verdict that took just 30 minutes to reach and could bring the death penalty.
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A man is sentenced to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of a Nottinghamshire Pc.
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MIAMI, July 16 -- One day before he was to die by lethal injection, convicted cop killer Troy Davis received a 90-day stay of execution Monday from a Georgia clemency board, allowing him time to press his case that he has been the victim of mistaken identity.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois' governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence &#151; this time in Missouri &#151; if convicted of murdering his boss in St. Louis.
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A child killer received a reprieve Friday from the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled that electrocution, the state's only means of capital punishment, is unconstitutional.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois&#39; governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence - this time in Missouri - if convicted of murdering his boss in St.