Texas clemency for death row man
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A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Monday that it would decide whether a death row inmate's  constitutional rights had been violated by forcing him to  appear at his sentencing while shackled in leg irons and  handcuffed to a belly chain in front of the jury.
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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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The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl after luring her to a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years ago.
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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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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas cannot execute a delusional, mentally ill inmate who does not fully understand why he is being put to death.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Houston woman remained on schedule Tuesday to become the 24th Texas death-row inmate to be executed this year.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence justices previously overturned.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A prisoner convicted of  killing a man during a 1994 robbery was put to death on  Wednesday in the first of two scheduled executions this week in  Texas.
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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  killing a bank employee during a 1982 robbery in Dallas was  executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.