Md. Governor Commutes Three Life Sentences
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Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Friday commuted the sentences of three inmates, including that of a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed when she was 15 years old.
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Ensnared in a Texas law that makes accomplices subject to the death penalty, Kenneth Foster is to become the third death row inmate this week to be executed.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois&#39; governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence - this time in Missouri - if convicted of murdering his boss in St.
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The death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV has been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said Tuesday.
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Lonny Baxter, the former University of Maryland basketball star who was briefly jailed last year for firing a handgun near the White House, was sentenced today to 60 days in jail for a federal firearms violation, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active capital punishment state.
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WASHINGTON -- Governors from five Western state
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WASHINGTON - The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the Death Row population fell for the third year in a row, signaling the continuation of a slow trend away from state- and federally ordered executions, according to
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Atlanta Thrashers star Dany Heatley was sentenced Friday to three years of probation and must give 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding after pleading guilty in the death of teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 8--Gov.
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Deamonte Driver, the 12-year-old Prince George's County boy who died in February of an infection caused by an abscessed tooth, was one of more than 10,780 Medicaid-eligible Maryland children who had not seen a dentist in at least four years, a congressional analysis has concluded.
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The state trooper who was at the wheel during Gov. Jon S. Corzine's near-fatal SUV crash is once again ferrying the governor even though he faces a suspension for his role in the wreck.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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Even with the prospect of prison looming, former Gov. John G. Rowland remained a politician, emphasizing the positive.
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JERUSALEM -- A Jewish settler convicted of murdering four Palestinians and injuring a fifth in an attack he hoped would prevent Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year was sentenced yesterday to four consecutive life terms plus an additional 12 years in prison.
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Chung Mong-koo, 68, committed a âclearly criminal act,â the judge said, and will serve three years.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on Friday for his role in the 1964 killings of two black men in a case emblematic of white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.