N.C. man executed death of stepdaughter
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A 36-year-old man was executed early Friday for the beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter 12 years ago.
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A man who confessed to murdering four children 10 years ago was executed early this morning, becoming the first Tennessee inmate to die in the electric chair in 47 years.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - An elderly man was convicted Wednesday of trying to kill his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, faces a mandatory 25-year prison sentence after a jury took less than an hour to find him guilty of attempted murder and willful injury.
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A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.
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A man who battered a woman and her nephew to death with a hammer receives a life prison term.
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Redwood City, California. KAZINFORM quotes CNN -- Laci Peterson&#39;s stepfather said Scott Peterson &quot;got what he deserved&quot; when the jury in his murder trial recommended Monday that he die by lethal injection for killing his 27-year-old pregnant wife.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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A father and his brother are jailed for ordering the death of a daughter after finding out she had a boyfriend.
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A young man was convicted Wednesday of murdering his stepfather with a samurai sword.
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A husband who killed his ill wife after she begged him to help her die was jailed for life today.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1993 robbery was  executed on Tuesday by lethal injection.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida prison officials   on Wednesday executed a 48-year-old death row inmate for the   1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a case that   ignited debate over the use of lethal injection.
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Three teenagers convicted of killing father of three who was kicked to death outside his home
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A woman confessed on her deathbed to killing her husband and putting his body in a freezer 14 years ago. Her late husband&#39;s remains were discovered shortly after her daughter notified the police.
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A South Carolina man was executed by lethal injection on Friday for the killing nearly 10 years ago of an elderly security guard during an armored car robbery outside a rural bank, authorities said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former deputy sheriff on Wednesday for the murder of a Houston woman during the robbery of a wedding chapel and flower shop she owned with her mother.