U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Connecticut Execution Stay
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - 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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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of a man who killed his parents nine years ago.
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The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence the justices had previously overturned.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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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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HOUSTON, Texas  - Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a  rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she  was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for  the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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The Connecticut execution of a serial killer who wants to die is halted less than an hour before it is due to happen.
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The US Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a case on whether the constitution permits extending capital punishment beyond murder to a man convicted of raping, but not killing a child.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that family members wearing buttons bearing the image of their slain  loved one did not compromise his killer's right to a fair trial.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether the commonly used lethal injection method of execution for death row inmates violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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After the Supreme Court granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third, some say that a de facto moratorium on the death penalty is in place.
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WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court reinstated the death penalty on Monday in the pending case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged in the United States as a conspirator in the Sept.
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The Kansas Supreme Court agreed Monday to put on hold its ruling throwing out the state's death penalty law. The delay will allow the state attorney general to pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Connecticut officials put off  New England's first execution in 45 years on Monday after  serial killer Michael Ross changed his mind and admitted he may  be mentally incompetent.
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Enforcing its edict against execution of the insane, a split Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence of Scott Louis Panetti, a delusional Texas murderer.
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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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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday  lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being  buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her  baby daughter had already been obtained.