Former Illinois death row inmate could face execution in Missouri
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ST. LOUIS Thomas Umphrey was spared the death penalty for killing a woman in Illinois. Now, he could go back to death row -- this time in Missouri -- if convicted of killing his boss in St.
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A jail inmate has been linked to the deaths of several women whose bodies were dumped along desolate rural roads in Illinois, authorities said Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court said Monday that it would use the case of a Missouri death row inmate to consider the constitutionality of forcing defendants to appear before juries in chains and shackles.
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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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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan,   promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for his vigorous   opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced to 6-1/2 years   in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office.
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By Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--Did you hear the one about the Death Row inmate who wanted to tell a joke at his execution? It's not funny.   Patrick Knight, Texas inmate No. 999072, is scheduled to die June 26 for killing his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, in 1991.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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Lethal injection procedures pose a danger of cruelly inhumane executions with excruciating pain, an attorney for two death row inmates told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a capital punishment case that has drawn worldwide attention.
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Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
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A Belfast man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2002 is due to hear if his jail term is to be extended.
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A suicidal California man could  face the death penalty for triggering a rail crash that killed  11 people, authorities said on Thursday, and they described a  possible copycat attempt by another depressed driver.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas cannot execute a delusional, mentally ill inmate who does not fully understand why he is being put to death.
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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.