Hours From Death: Execution Halted
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Governor Rick Perry has halted tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston. Perry accepted a recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles that
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - A federal judge has declared Tennessee's procedure to execute inmates by lethal injection puts them at risk of a painful death, and canceled next week's scheduled execution of a 52-year-old inmate.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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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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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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The first execution of a black woman in Texas since the American civil war was delayed at the 11th hour yesterday when the state governor granted a reprieve pending new tests on evidence.
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The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends executions in the US state after a botched death by lethal injection.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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Connecticut prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to override a judge's decision that allowed an admitted serial killer's execution to be delayed.
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Florida's governor ends a temporary halt on capital punishment that was imposed after a botched execution.
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The state postponed plans Monday to execute a serial killer after he agreed to have his mental competency examined, delaying for at least a month what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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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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New instructions aimed at ending murder trial deadlock.