California Executes First Inmate in Three Years
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death on Wednesday,  in the first execution in the state in three years.
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A 25-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. It was the state's first execution in 60 years.
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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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A man convicted of murdering eight children in a frenzied knife attack at a primary school three years ago was hanged in Osaka yesterday, in Japan&#39;s first execution for a year.
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California's top security prison  declared a state of emergency and will isolate its prisoners  for up to six weeks after discovering an inmate plot to murder  three guards, officials said on Friday.
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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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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New Jersey on Monday became the first state in more than three decades to abolish the death penalty after a state commission ruled the punishment is "inconsistent with evolving standards of decency."
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson now faces life in prison or death by lethal injection. A California jury has convicted him of first-degree murder for killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body in the San Francisco Bay.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a plea for mercy for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1981 over a drug deal, clearing the way for California's first execution in three years.
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Japan executed Friday three prisoners on death row, the Justice Ministry announced.
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SAN JOSE, California  - A California official   admitted on Tuesday that state prison guards had bungled last   year's controversial execution of former gang leader Stanley   Williams, but denied that lethal injection constituted cruel   and unusual punishment.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - A federal judge has declared Tennessee's procedure to execute inmates by lethal injection puts them at risk of a painful death, and canceled next week's scheduled execution of a 52-year-old inmate.
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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 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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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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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.