Texan set for execution wants to die laughing
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A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas cannot execute a delusional, mentally ill inmate who does not fully understand why he is being put to death.
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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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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston is in line to be the third Texas woman in modern times to be executed.
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Gov. Rick Perry should delay tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of a Harris County woman who was condemned for the murders of her husband and two children, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Tuesday.
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota  - Just minutes before   prison officials had planned to serve death row inmate Elijah   Page his last meal, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds delayed the   state's first execution in 59 years until at least next July.
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Andre Luckett has forgiven the accused  killer of his father. Now he wants Texas, the nation's leading  death penalty state, to do the same.
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In the midst of a key national election on Tuesday, Texas, the leading death penalty state, took time out to execute a man for a 1990 murder.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas A former high school football star has been executed in Texas for a 1994 slaying. Demarco McCullum was arrested the day that he was supposed to leave for a junior college where he had an athletic scholarship.
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The tragic story that began with a sick joke on the Internet is coming to a close as a Riverhead, New York, jury deliberates the fate of 53-year-old John White, on trial for killing a friend of his son.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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Frances Newton would be the third Texas woman in modern times and just the fourth in 141 years to be executed in Texas if she&#39;s put to death
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing an elderly Houston  couple in a 1992 robbery.
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If serial killer Michael Ross gets his wish, he will become the first person executed in New England in 45 years. Connecticut's governor and most state residents agree he should be.
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As the political establishment chuckles over his recent gaffes, the surging underdog candidate hopes to have the last laugh