'Dr Death' to be freed from jail
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Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death for helping the terminally to die, is to be freed from a US jail.
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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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An inmate died at a hospital early Tuesday after a failed escape attempt in which he grabbed a deputy's gun and wounded him and was then gunned down as he drove away in a police van.
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A doctor and his wife charged with operating a "pill mill" that prosecutors said caused the overdose deaths of at least four patients will remain in jail because they are a flight risk, a federal magistrate ruled Friday.
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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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A man who murdered his wife is in hospital after being found in his cell ahead of his sentence by a judge.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 21--A woman convicted of killing her husband will stay out of jail for four months while she undergoes hip surgery.   Campbell County Circuit Court Judge J.S.
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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
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WASHINGTON -- Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen and ''enemy combatant&quot; whose imprisonment without charges by the Bush administration for nearly three years led to a historic Supreme Court decision this summer, will be freed under an agreement with the Justice Department.
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A doctor from Essex arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 86-year-old man is released on police bail.
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A convicted murderer escapes from the custody of Reliance guards while being treated at hospital.
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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from jail, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said.
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A convicted killer who spent more than a decade on the run with a former prison warden's wife died Wednesday in a prison infirmary, officials said.
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.