Death row man pleads for his life
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A Leeds man facing the death sentence in Pakistan pleads to Tony Blair to help him and thanks his campaigners.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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A 35-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering five older people was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan  - Jack Kevorkian, who became notorious as "Dr. Death" for helping more than a hundred people kill themselves, said on Tuesday he would dedicate himself to a longshot effort to convince Americans to support assisted suicide.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.
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A Briton who spent 18 years in jail in Pakistan has told of the moment he was sentenced to death.Comment
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A husband who killed his ill wife after she begged him to help her die was jailed for life today.
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A man who has been on Death Row for 20 years for the murder of a young girl is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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LANSING, Mich. -- 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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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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Drivers who cause death on the roads could be jailed for life, prosecutors propose.
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A BRITON who spent 18 years facing the death sentence in Pakistan for a murder he says he did not commit told today of the horror of hearing the sounds of fellow prisoners being executed just metres away.Comment
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A Briton is said to be in good spirits after being transferred from death row in the US to another jail.
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A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.
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A Briton who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the US is to face a retrial.