High Court Grants Stay In Alabama Execution
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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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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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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A day before he was scheduled to die, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the execution of a man convicted of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage in 1982.
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A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to postpone the execution of a man convicted of a series of murders in the 1980s.
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Connecticut prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to override a stay of execution for serial killer Michael Ross and allow New England's first execution in 45 years to proceed.
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A US death row inmate in Florida, whose January execution was delayed at the last minute to allow him to contest the state's lethal execution method as inhumane, faces execution Wednesday after losing a series of court appeals.
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An Alabama death row inmate won a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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Indonesian officials issued a last-minute stay of execution Friday night for three Christian militiamen on death row, but they added that the sentences would still be carried out.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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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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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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A man convicted of killing a woman during a bar robbery in Texas in 1994 was executed late Tuesday after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.
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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A man convicted of shooting a World War Two veteran to death during a 1988 robbery was executed by lethal injection on Thursday in Alabama.
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.