New hope for woman set to be executed
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(11/30/04 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - A Houston woman set to die Wednesday night for murdering her husband and two children may be spared.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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The father and uncle of a woman who was brutally murdered for falling in love with the wrong man were sentenced to life in prison Friday for ordering the killing.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.
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Â· Grand chamber of human rights court to hear appealÂ· Women argue that one will lose house when other dies
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A woman guilty of murdering her husband will "serve every day of her 20-year sentence," a judge says.
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A woman convicted of murder and given a life sentence in the stabbing death of a teenage rival lost a new bid for freedom Tuesday in her long-running appeals battle.
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Two people accused of killing a social worker in western Kentucky could face the death penalty if convicted.
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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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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida is scheduled to   execute a man on Wednesday, whose case touched off a round of   legal battles over the use of lethal injection to kill   criminals.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A former oilfield worker who  abducted a woman from a car wash and then murdered her was put  to death by lethal injection on Thursday in the 20th execution  this year in Texas.
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WHERE: Saudi Arabia, where beheading is the punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Human Rights groups say the number of executions has risen sharply and is already above 100 this year.
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A woman accused of luring an elderly acquaintance to her home, shooting her to death, stealing her money and hiding the corpse was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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Woman boasted to relatives that she had arranged for her daughter-in-law to be strangled.