`Railroad Killer' awaits Texas execution
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Texas&#039;s Railroad Killer, a drifter who authorities say killed at least 15 people as he made his way around the country by freight train, awaited execution Tuesday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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A man convicted in the slayings of a South Texas mother and her teenage son at their home nine years ago was executed Thursday.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former drug   dealer on Thursday for the 1997 murders of a 41-year-old woman   and her 15-year-old son at their home near the south Texas town   of Refugio.
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A convicted killer who walked away from an Alabama prison road gang nearly 30 years ago has been arrested and indicted in connection with a slaying in Texas, authorities said.
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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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Kenny Richey, who has been on death row for 21 years, is expected to be set free in a week, his lawyer says.
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The man accused of causing a deadly train wreck during an aborted suicide attempt last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 11 counts of murder that could bring the death penalty.
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A man awaits sentence for trying to murder an American tourist near Inverness, leaving her in a coma.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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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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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.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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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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Oklahoma is set to execute a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Tuesday who is terminally ill with cancer and is expected to die in a few months' time anyway.