Man set for execution wants to die laughing
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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Death row inmate John Spirko wanted a pardon or the chance to leave prison and prove his innocence. He got neither, though he did escape execution.
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John Freeman is a writer in New York. For a man who spent the better part of 50 years thinking about suicide, Imre Kert sz wears an alarmingly broad smile.
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By Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--Did you hear the one about the Death Row inmate who wanted to tell a joke at his execution? It's not funny.   Patrick Knight, Texas inmate No. 999072, is scheduled to die June 26 for killing his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, in 1991.
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A man who denies murdering two women and attempting to murder two others tells a jury he was depressed and suicidal.
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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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A play performed in Czech prisons has inmates laughing bitterly over some accused who they believe were treated leniently
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An elderly man nearing death who wants to give something back to the world, or just a prankster?
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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing. His chuckles come from nowhere, inmates say, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling.
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The oddball premise, about a man who brings murder victims back to life, has generated buzz.
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
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Funnyman Jack Black has another reason to smile.
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The alleged suicide attempt by the actor, known for his happy-go-lucky characters, shocks the movie industry