Gainesville killer gets execution date
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Gov. Jeb Bush signed a death warrant Friday for Danny Harold Rolling, who pleaded guilty to the grisly 1990 slayings of five Gainesville college students.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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A man convicted of six slayings in one of the worst killing sprees in North Carolina history was executed early Friday.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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A drifter accused of kidnapping and decapitating a 24-year-old hiker in Georgia is now a suspect in the slaying of a Florida woman whose body was found last month in a national forest, authorities said Wednesday.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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In the past 45 years, Tennessee has executed one death row inmate. On Tuesday, the state was preparing to administer lethal injection to two condemned murderers on the same day.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - A federal judge has declared Tennessee's procedure to execute inmates by lethal injection puts them at risk of a painful death, and canceled next week's scheduled execution of a 52-year-old inmate.
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a  rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she  was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for  the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A man convicted of shooting a World War Two veteran to death during a 1988 robbery was executed by lethal injection on Thursday in Alabama.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - A federal judge on Monday  stayed the execution of a Connecticut serial killer, who had  been scheduled later this week to become the first person put  to death in New England in 45 years.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a man on Thursday who confessed to killing three people in a 1999 robbery, including two who were injected with cleaning fluid before they were stabbed to death.