Former high school football star executed for slaying Houston man
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas A former high school football star has been executed in Texas for a 1994 slaying. Demarco McCullum was arrested the day that he was supposed to leave for a junior college where he had an athletic scholarship.
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A man convicted of murdering the manager of a topless bar 27 years ago was executed by injection Wednesday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals.
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MIAMI, July 16 -- One day before he was to die by lethal injection, convicted cop killer Troy Davis received a 90-day stay of execution Monday from a Georgia clemency board, allowing him time to press his case that he has been the victim of mistaken identity.
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MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana  - The state of Indiana on Friday executed a man who killed a police officer after he was arrested for public drunkenness more than 16 years ago.
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A confessed serial killer due to be  paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of  murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman  25 years ago.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.
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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.
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LOCK HAVEN, Pa. Oct. 14, 2004 - A former college football player was convicted of murder Thursday in the beating death of the brother of Olympic wrestler Sara McMann.
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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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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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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on Friday for his role in the 1964 killings of two black men in a case that highlights white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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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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The whole project was pure shamelessness. A controversial former football star, who many believe got off scot-free after killing two people, writes a book about how he might have committed the murders. It was an end zone dance in the worst possible taste. Everyone was outraged but had to concede...
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(Corrects spelling of Raybin in third paragraph) NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Tennessee used its electric chair for the first time in 47 years on Wednesday to execute a man who killed his three sons and their half-sister.
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A Houston-area high school football standout who had orally committed to play at the University of Oklahoma next year was shot to death at an apartment complex on Friday.The police arrested a 19-year-old Louisiana man, Emile Lewis, and charged him with murder.Herman Mitchell, 17, died at Ben Taub General Hospital of multiple wounds, said Lt. John Martin of the Harris County Sheriffâs Office. The 6-foot, 200-pound senior linebacker for Westfield High School had accepted a scholarship offer to play for Oklahoma.Witnesses reported that Mitchell and another teenager were fighting in the parking lot before the shooting, Martin said.
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New Mexico State linebacker Shana Leaupepe, who was set to be a starter this season, was killed in a drive-by shooting.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Houston woman remained on schedule Tuesday to become the 24th Texas death-row inmate to be executed this year.