Florida suspends executions after bungled injection
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida halted executions on Friday 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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A botulinum preparation a Florida doctor injected in himself and three others for cosmetic purposes two years ago was up to 40 times more lethal than what it takes to kill a person, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered his staff on Monday to fix the state's use of lethal injection for executions so it satisfies a federal judge who declared it unconstitutional.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.
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Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton on Wednesday, one day after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that she be temporarily spared while her attorneys retest crucial evidence.
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A US death row inmate in Florida, whose January execution was delayed at the last minute to allow him to contest the state's lethal execution method as inhumane, faces execution Wednesday after losing a series of court appeals.
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Gov. Mike Rounds halted South Dakota's first execution in 59 years just hours before it was scheduled Tuesday, saying the state law detailing how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete.
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The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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By BRETT BARROUQUERE  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A federal judge turned away a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection method Thursday, saying three death-row inmates first must file a grievance with prison administrators.
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Two of the patients who became ill after getting Botox injections in Florida are an osteopathic physician and a chiropractor who have lost their licenses.
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Federal documents show that four people who remain paralyzed with botulism were injected with shots that contained a large dose of a raw, unapproved toxin that their anti-wrinkling
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A Florida clinic offering low-cost Botox injections to remove wrinkles has been sealed off by US Federal agents from the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s Office of Criminal Investigations after four people were left paralyzed by botulism.
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ENFIELD, Conn.  - Connecticut prison officials  postponed the execution early on Saturday of serial killer  Michael Ross after his lawyer cited a conflict of interest and  requested the last-minute delay.
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The first execution of a black woman in Texas since the American civil war was delayed at the 11th hour yesterday when the state governor granted a reprieve pending new tests on evidence.
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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A couple who underwent Botox injections last week were hospitalized with botulism poisoning, and health officials were attempting to determine whether the injections were to blame.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.