Fla. to investigate 34-minute execution
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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FLORIDA governor Jeb Bush suspended all state executions after an expert said prison chiefs botched the insertion of needles when a killer was put to death on Wednesday. It took 34 minutes for Angel Diaz, above, to die - twice as long as usual - and heneeded two doses of chemicals.
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A commission examining last year's botched lethal injection execution said Sunday it will recommend changes this week aimed at reducing errors in Florida's death row procedures.
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Gov. Jeb Bush appointed a commission to consider lethal injections following a botched execution on Wednesday.
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Detectives are given more time to question a man over the death of a woman whose body was found in a lay-by.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Serial killer Michael Ross has tried for 10 years to speed his own death. On Saturday, little more than an hour before his scheduled execution, Ross' own attorney caused another delay, saying he needed time to examine his own potential conflict of interest.
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An inquiry into Pat Finucane's murder in 1989 is due to be announced by the government within the next few hours.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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LAKELAND, Florida  - A man suspected of killing a Florida sheriff's deputy was shot and killed by police on Friday after a 21-hour manhunt by hundreds of officers.
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A CONVICTED murderer took 34 minutes to die in the execution chamber, needing a second dose of lethal chemicals.   The family of Angel Diaz, 55, called his death in Starke, Florida, barbaric.
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Â· Decision expected soon on whether to hold retrialÂ· Four convicted men to be sentenced today
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By Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Missouri prison officials have until Oct. 27 to submit a revised protocol for putting condemned inmates to death, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.   U.S.
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in an unusual step, recommended on Tuesday that the execution of a 39-year-old woman scheduled for 6 pm on Wednesday be delayed
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MIAMI, July 16 -- One day before he was to die by lethal injection, convicted cop killer Troy Davis received a 90-day stay of execution Monday from a Georgia clemency board, allowing him time to press his case that he has been the victim of mistaken identity.
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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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A man serving a life sentence for robbing a drugstore has confessed to overpowering and fatally shooting a deputy who was taking him to court Wednesday, authorities said. It was the third shooting of a Broward County, Florida, sheriff's deputy in four months, and the second fatality.