Tennessee executes child killer in electric chair
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Tennessee used its electric chair for the first time in 47 years on Wednesday to execute a man who killed his three sons and their half-sister.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida  - An Ecuadorean man was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the murders of four people at a central Florida factory nearly a decade ago.
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News directors: UPDATES with additional details JARRATT, Va.  _ A Halifax County man who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a driveway was executed tonight.
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Authorities say three years ago, Christopher Pittman, then 12, shot his grandparents as they slept because they had scolded him for fighting. But Christopher's father, Joe Pittman, thinks his son killed because his sense of right and wrong was clouded by the anti-depressant Zoloft.
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Chicago - The family and friends of a pregnant woman murdered for her unborn baby prepared to bury the 23-year-old on Tuesday, a day after her infant was released from hospital.
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Tennessee carried out its second execution in 45 years early Wednesday, and train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz went to his death in Texas by asking his victims&#039; families for forgiveness.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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Texas executed a convicted killer by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1998 murder of a woman whose body he sexually molested after he strangled her to death.
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A man killed five people, including three of his children, before fatally shooting himself Saturday morning, and a fourth child was in the hospital with life-threatening wounds, police said.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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The state of Texas executed a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Wednesday, in its 400th execution since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A gunman killed three schoolgirls execution style and then shot himself dead on Monday after bursting into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, police said.
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A baby sitter was charged with the murder of a toddler who police said was fatally injured when she swung him around in a sleeping bag for fun and his head smacked a door frame.
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A killer who sat on his unconscious victim and headbutted him as he lay dying is branded "pure evil".
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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INVERNESS, Fla.  -- A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive in his yard.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas on Tuesday executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.