Lawrence killer wins bid to stay
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The killer of head teacher Philip Lawrence will not be deported to Italy, a court reaffirms.
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A defense attorney for a serial killer who wants to die said Sunday that he will remain on the case, a decision that officials said keeps the inmate on track to become the first person executed in New England in 45 years.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday  upheld a stay of execution for convicted serial killer Michael  Ross and sent his case back to a lower federal court to  determine if a public defender may intervene in the process.
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Belgium's most hated criminal, convicted child killer Marc Dutroux, lost his final appeal of a life sentence for multiple murder, kidnap and rape following a ruling by the country's highest court on Wednesday.
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The killer of a London head teacher loses an appeal against a decision returning him to closed prison.
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A suspected murderer who is thought to have killed again stayed on bail despite breaching a condition.
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Barry George, killer of TV presenter Jill Dando, has won the right to a new appeal, the BBC understands.
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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KARACHI, Aug 24 (IPS) - Pakistan authorities have granted a one-month stay  of execution for an Englishman who has been the focus of a  massive effort by British authorities and civil society to obtain  his freedom.
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ATTICA, NY -- John Lennon&#39;s killer will stay in prison for at least two years after being denied parole yesterday for the third time because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for Connecticut death row inmate Michael Ross in a move that could clear the way for New England's first execution in 45 years.
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A security driver who has won his appeal against a robbery conviction says he will keep on fighting if a retrial is ordered.
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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in case brought by prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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A man convicted of killing a police officer won a reprieve a day before his scheduled execution, after his lawyers argued that several witnesses had recanted or changed their testimony.
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A man who has been on Death Row for 20 years for the murder of a two-year-old girl is to be freed after a plea bargain.