Supreme Court will not hear appeal of convicted killer-rapist Larry Fisher
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OTTAWA (CP) - The man convicted of the brutal murder and rape that kept David Milgaard wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years will not be able to appeal his case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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A state appeals court Friday refused to vacate the murder conviction of ex-Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry, who died while serving a life term for the deaths of four black girls in a 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
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A judge refused Wednesday to dismiss the case against a man charged with murdering the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the financier Ronald O. Perelman, who asked the court to restore a $1.58 billion verdict against the investment bank Morgan Stanley.
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The Supreme Court declined once again yesterday to decide whether a lengthy delay in carrying out a death sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, this time in the case of an Arizona man who murdered two teenage girls.
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The state appeals court on Thursday declined to allow a new trial for a father convicted of beating a man to death at their sons' hockey practice.
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WASHINGTON - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal on Monday in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.
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A Pakistani court on Thursday again adjourned an appeal hearing for four Islamic militants convicted of the abduction and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl because a key defense lawyer failed to show up.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the appeal of a Mexican national on death row in Texas, stepping into an international debate over the legal rights of foreigners in capital punishment cases.
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On Monday, Oct. 18, the Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit by three California women who said Planned Parenthood withholds information concerning the link between abortion and breast cancer.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday  upheld a stay of execution for convicted serial killer Michael  Ross and sent his case back to a lower federal court to  determine if a public defender may intervene in the process.
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A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to postpone the execution of a man convicted of a series of murders in the 1980s.
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Connecticut's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift an order protecting a serial killer and clear the way for New England's first execution in 45 years to take place early Saturday.
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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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A man who spent 17 years behind bars for killing his parents will not face a second trial after his conviction was overturned by an appeals court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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By The Associated Press  WASHINGTON - The widow of a leukemia victim failed to persuade the Supreme Court Monday to consider allowing her to sue oil companies over her husband's exposure to a toxic chemical.
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.