Campaign grows to halt execution of U.S. inmate
445209
U.S. authorities should halt the execution next Tuesday of a man for killing an off-duty police officer in 1989 because of growing indications he might not be guilty, campaigners said on Friday.
273397
A new lawsuit seeking to prevent Massachusetts from placing mentally ill inmates in segregated cells reflects an increasing national concern.
11192
The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
502418
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.
522558
Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
747407
The American serving a 20-year  jail sentence for fighting with the Taliban asked the U.S.  government on Tuesday to lessen the sentence after it decided  to release a second American captured in Afghanistan.
1885
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.
170886
Residents of Usk demand an end to a policy of housing sex offenders at an open prison following a inmate's escape.
290347
In another 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Texas double murderer whose attorneys argue he is so mentally ill he doesn't understand his punishment.
200422
After the Supreme Court granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third, some say that a de facto moratorium on the death penalty is in place.
57140
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.
548008
The proposal reflects a growing belief that the use of the detention facility is tainting the image of the U.S.
61016
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
663135
TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida is scheduled to   execute a man on Wednesday, whose case touched off a round of   legal battles over the use of lethal injection to kill   criminals.
483584
It's not official, but a "creeping  moratorium" on the death penalty in the United States is taking  hold as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to the  method of lethal injection.
131788
'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
701741
By ERIC TUCKER  BOSTON - A warden's decision to ban a convicted killer from preaching to fellow inmates violates the prisoner's right to practice religion, his attorney told a federal appeals court Wednesday.