"Dr. Death" set to speak out after prison release
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Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate known as "Dr. Death," steps out of prison on Friday and back into the debate over whether the terminally ill have a right to end their lives with medical aid.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the  advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who is serving a 10- to  25-year prison term, will be the subject of a feature film.
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A Belfast man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2002 is due to hear if his jail term is to be extended.
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Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to die with dignity, his lawyers said Friday.
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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 man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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Kenny Richey, who has spent the past 20 years on death row in the US, expected back in UK by end of week
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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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An attorney for Jack Kevorkian asked the state parole board Monday to recommend that the assisted suicide advocate be released from prison for health reasons.
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After more than eight years behind bars for murder, an ailing Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June on a promise not to help anyone else commit suicide, prison officials said Wednesday.
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been released from a hospital and is expected to speak next month in Detroit in what could be his last major public address, the organization announced Tuesday.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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A pending execution in Connecticut will mark the first time in more than 40 years that an inmate has been put to death north or east of Pennsylvania.
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The final report into the UK's worst serial killer will reveal if the GP murdered patients in his early career.
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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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Testimony from former inmates is to be heard at the trial of the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.