Death by stoning sentence overturned
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An Islamic appeal court in Nigeria today overturned a sentence of death by stoning handed down to a 29-year-old pregnant woman for having sex out of wedlock.
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Lawyers for a woman sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly committing adultery asked an Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday to overturn the verdict, and the judge said he would issue a ruling in two weeks.
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Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri loses his appeal against  convictions for incitement to murder and race-hate crimes.
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A priest who financed the grooming of a child for sex loses his bid to appeal against his sentence.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - The Kansas Supreme Court on  Friday ruled that state's death penalty unconstitutional,  handing another victory to opponents of capital punishment.
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Malaysia&#39;s highest court today overturned the sodomy conviction of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim and freed him after six years of what has widely been condemned as a &quot;political&quot; imprisonment.
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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.
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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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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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The Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sentence of a convicted Texas killer because jurors in his trial did not consider his learning disability and other evidence.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a jury that sentenced a convicted killer to death had properly taken into account his religious conversion, which a prosecutor incorrectly contended was irrelevant.
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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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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teenager, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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An appeals court in Texas today overturned the murder conviction of Andrea Yates in the 2001 drowning deaths of her children.
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A convicted killer who had argued that Florida's use of lethal injections amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of a man who killed his parents nine years ago.
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An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who criticized conservative Muslims and was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president, court officials said.