Mass. Governor to File Death Penalty Bill
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Hoping to bring capital punishment to Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney is preparing to file a death penalty bill early next year that he says is so carefully written it will guarantee only the guilty are executed.
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Mark Geragos&#39; task now is to save the life of his client, a convicted double murderer facing a possible death sentence. His problem is that the usual defense approach to the penalty phase of a capital case
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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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When Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a death warrant for a convicted killer this month, he may have done more than start the clock ticking on an execution. Some say Fletcher, a doctor, may have put his medical license at risk.
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Employers who fail to pay their workers or neglect to pay them in a timely manner would be hit with triple damages under a bill passed by the Legislature this week and sent to Governor Mitt Romney, who must decide by Thursday whether to sign it into law.
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As other states line up to invest billions of dollars in stem cell research, state lawmakers vowed Tuesday to act quickly on legislation that would enable Connecticut to join them.
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Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty against a woman convicted of fatally poisoning her husband with antifreeze and accused of killing a boyfriend the same way.
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A new lawsuit seeking to prevent Massachusetts from placing mentally ill inmates in segregated cells reflects an increasing national concern.
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Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to identify members of its execution team after a newspaper revealed that a nurse on the team was once accused of stalking.
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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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Former Mass. governor releases his 280 delegates and asks them to back his one-time GOP rival.
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Deval Patrick, a former top U.S.  civil-rights enforcer, will try to become Massachusetts' first  black governor and break a 16-year Republican hold on the  office after winning the liberal state's Democratic primary on  Tuesday.
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Justice Department attorneys will pursue the death penalty against a former U.S. Army soldier accused of raping and killing an Iraqi teenager and slaying her family members last year, according to papers filed yesterday in federal court. It could be the first capital case to proceed against a U.S....
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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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The governor has asked President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students during the mass killings at Virginia Tech.
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Connecticut's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift an order protecting a serial killer and clear the way for New England's first execution in 45 years to take place early Saturday.
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Huntsville -- Governor Rick Perry is considering whether to delay Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.