Murderer among prison absconders
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Three inmates, including a convicted murderer, go on the run after absconding from an open prison in Derbyshire.
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A BRITON who spent 18 years facing the death sentence in Pakistan for a murder he says he did not commit told today of the horror of hearing the sounds of fellow prisoners being executed just metres away.Comment
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A convicted murderer escapes from the custody of escort guards while being treated at hospital.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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A VIOLENT sex offender was being questioned by police today after absconding from a bail hostel for the third time within a year. John Phillips, 53, went missing from a hostel in Oldham where he went voluntarily to live on the same day he was released from prison last Thursday.
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A prison inmate has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women in Los Angeles, including three slayings for which another man was wrongly convicted.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A convicted killer who spent more than a decade on the run with a former prison warden's wife died Wednesday in a prison infirmary, officials said.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from prison guards during a hospital appointment is recaptured.
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The 16 minutes it took Christopher Newton to die once chemicals began flowing into his veins was the longest stretch that any of the state's inmates executed since 1999 has endured, an Associated Press review shows.
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Police are hunting a convicted sex offender who has absconded from an open prison in Lincolnshire.
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A convicted sex offender who absconded from a Lincolnshire open prison is recaptured by police.
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Police probe possible links between a convicted killer and five unsolved murders in Scotland.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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Two men are jailed for life for murdering a father-of-two in a case of mistaken identity.
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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.