Florida, California suspend executions
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Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
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Florida's governor ends a temporary halt on capital punishment that was imposed after a botched execution.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley on Monday rejected calls to postpone this week's execution of convicted serial killer Daniel Lee Siebert despite his terminal cancer and a national controversy over lethal injections.
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Problems at a Houston crime lab have led to a moratorium n executions.
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California could see its first execution in nearly three years early Wednesday unless a last-minute appeal is granted or if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grants him clemency.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt 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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A month after the US Supreme Court agreed to wade into the lethal injection debate, executions are effectively on hold across the nation as courts and politicians sit tight amid a legal limbo.
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A federal judge ruled on Friday that California's present method of execution through lethal injection is unconstitutional but said it could be fixed by changing the procedure.
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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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Alabama is set to breach an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions on Thursday by putting to death by lethal injection a convicted rapist and murderer.
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A commission reviewing the botched lethal injection of a death row inmate urged Florida's governor find a way to ensure inmates are unconscious before the second and third extremely painful drugs are injected.
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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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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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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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The American Bar Association said on Monday it was renewing its call for a nationwide moratorium on executions, based on a three-year study of death penalty systems in eight states that found unfairness and other flaws.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether lethal injection causes excruciating pain for death row inmates and violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." The three dozen states that perform lethal injections use the three-drug mixture at issue in this case.
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order staying the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer, as part of its decision to review the legality of lethal injections nationwide.