US retrial for Scot on death row
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A Scottish man on death row in the US is to face a retrial after his conviction was overturned a second time.
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ST. LOUIS Thomas Umphrey was spared the death penalty for killing a woman in Illinois. Now, he could go back to death row -- this time in Missouri -- if convicted of killing his boss in St.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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Derrick Todd Lee got a life sentence for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Now the man authorities say is a serial killer faces another trial that could put him on death row.
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A Briton whose US murder conviction was quashed after 18 years on death row has spoken of his anger.
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A Briton who spent more than 21 years on death row in America is due to return to Scotland after he was freed by a US court.
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A federal appeals court ordered the trial of a black man facing charges in the nation's worst immigrant smuggling death case to begin as soon as possible before a death-penalty certified jury.
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A trial resumes today for a Slavic man charged with killing a gay man in Sacramento, Calif.
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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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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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A death row inmate convicted of setting a fire that killed five children must be released or retried because his constitutional rights were violated when his confession was used at trial, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.
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A man is remanded in custody charged with the murder of a 23-year-old in Belfast seven years ago.
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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.
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A Briton is said to be in good spirits after being transferred from death row in the US to another jail.
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A state crime lab chemist returned to the witness stand for a second day Tuesday as a trial resumed for a man who served time for a deadly 1998 school yard ambush and now faces federal charges that could return him to prison for a decade.
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A  Brazilian gunman gets a 27-year jail term after a retrial for the murder of US nun and environmentalist Dorothy Stang.
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.