Executions Decline Elsewhere, but Texas Holds Steady
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With enthusiasm for executions dropping in most states, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas this year.
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Texas has stayed in the American League West race with its solid play against division foes.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida ended on Wednesday a moratorium on capital punishment spurred by a gruesomely slow execution at the end of last year, as Gov. Charlie Crist signed his first death warrant.
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As violent crime rates continue to drop, experts look for explanations -- and signs of whether the decline is permanent
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states' executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 &#151; the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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Texas remained the most active death penalty state in 2004 with 23 executions, down from a year ago and about average for the past decade. But legal experts and death penalty opponents suggest there are signs that increased judicial scrutiny is giving pause to juries and prosecutors considering capital punishment.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a man on Thursday who confessed to killing three people in a 1999 robbery, including two who were injected with cleaning fluid before they were stabbed to death.
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The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was executed by  lethal injection on Tuesday for the robbery and murder more  than 20 years ago of a man carrying $13 in his wallet.
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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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Americans are using the ultimate punishment less and less. But that doesn't mean it's on the way out.
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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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A quarter-century has elapsed since the U.S. experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal injections.
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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.
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Posted December 1, 2004 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday halted the execution of Frances Newton, who was scheduled to be the first Black woman executed in the state.
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The Texas parole board has recommended delaying the execution of a woman accused of killing her husband and two young children, leaving the chance for a reprieve in the hands of the governor.