Top court to decide death penalty lawyer case
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on   Tuesday it would decide whether a lawyer failed to adequately   represent an Arizona man who was sentenced to death after   actively thwarting the lawyer's efforts to help him.
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On Monday, the court hears arguments on whether Kentucky's lethal injection is too painful.
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REDWOOD CITY -- The same dozen jurors who convicted Scott Peterson of killing his wife, Laci, and the fetus she carried will now decide whether to send the killer to San Quentin State Prisonâs death row.
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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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On issues such as the juvenile death penalty, the court considers whether it should weigh international opinion.
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Libya&#39;s top legal body meets on Tuesday to rule on death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting children with the AIDS virus, with a compensation deal for victims set to win them a reprieve.
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Defense lawyers are trying to persuade jurors to spare Scott Peterson's life with testimony about his childhood and how a death sentence would affect his family members' lives.
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Lethal injection procedures pose a danger of cruelly inhumane executions with excruciating pain, an attorney for two death row inmates told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a capital punishment case that has drawn worldwide attention.
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Jurors should be free to decide whether killers who are under age 18 when they commit their crimes are mature enough to deserve the death penalty, a lawyer for
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 &#151; the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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Politics: 3 October 2004, Sunday. The lawyers of the five Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya headed for Tripoli on Sunday to seek information about the way the case proceeds at the Supreme Court.
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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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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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A Scot who was on death row in the US is to attend an appeal hearing which should see him released.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida is scheduled to   execute a man on Wednesday, whose case touched off a round of   legal battles over the use of lethal injection to kill   criminals.
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Attorney General Phill Kline on Wednesday asked the Kansas Supreme Court to reconsider its decision striking down the state's death penalty law.
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It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.