Wrexham Handed Two-Week Stay of Execution
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Wrexham have been given a stay of execution after the High Court granted the club more time to solve their financial problems. However, the Coca-Cola League Two outfit have been given just two weeks to sort out the crisis or face a winding-up order.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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A Serb ultranationalist could die within two weeks if he continues his hunger strike at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's detention unit, a French doctor said after visiting him Tuesday.
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Australian authorities have given police another two days to hold a doctor detained in connection with attempted car bombings in Britain, lawyers said Wednesday.
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The head of a Jordanian prison is dismissed two days after 100 inmates deliberately injure themselves.
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A judge sentenced two men to life in prison for murdering three of their young relatives who were found nearly decapitated at their home two years ago.
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However, he twisted it badly when trying to prevent Barca from scoring their second goal at Celtic Park. Celtic said on Wednesday the defender would be out for between four and six weeks.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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The Kanchipuram court on Friday ordered Jayendra Saraswathi to remain in jail for two more weeks in connection with the murder of a temple official, dashing hopes of millions of devotees that he would get bail.
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ATTICA, NY John Lennon&#39;s killer will remain in prison for at least two more years after being denied parole today. The New York state parole board cited the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; Mark David Chapman showed in gunning down Lennon.
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A Dutch judge Friday ordered the detention for two weeks of the exiled founder of the Philippine communist insurgency, Jose Maria Sison, suspected of ordering the murder of rivals.
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A court in southern Spain Friday confirmed a 19-year prison sentence handed down to British murderer Tony Alexander King for the killing of a teenage girl, judicial sources said.
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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 Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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Two men who killed a British tourist in Thailand have their death sentences commuted to life in jail.
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Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein -- including the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- will be executed within 30 days, senior appellate Judge Munir Haddad said Tuesday.
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Two Macedonians taken hostage by a militant group were reported to have been beheaded in Iraq yesterday. However, the first Australian kidnap victim in the country was freed after 36 hours in captivity.