Split Court Clears Way to Execute LA Gang Founder
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A divided U.S. appeals court  declined on Wednesday to reconsider a death penalty verdict  against the founder of a notorious street gang turned peace  advocate, making possible his execution later this year after a  quarter-century delay.
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Jurors decide a man shot dead by police while carrying a lighter shaped like a gun was lawfully killed.
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A federal court cleared the way for TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to be extradited to face charges in Mexico, but the decision can still be appealed.
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A three-judge tribunal on Tuesday found two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang guilty of killing 28 people in a shooting attack on a passenger bus, and acquitted two other men in the case.
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The Supreme Court accepted an appeal Tuesday from Arizona, which wants to execute a twice-convicted killer who says his lawyer didn't do enough to ward off a death sentence.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4 -- A federal judge ruled that a former El Salvadoran military captain is liable for $10 million in damages for his role in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose killing symbolized death squad terrorism during El Salvador's civil war.
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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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SANTA MONICA, California  - Relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman won a court order on Tuesday seizing any money O.J. Simpson earns for lending his name and likeness to a football video game with a fictional team called the Assassins and a knife-wielding mascot.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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The decision means that the only person on New Yorkâs death row will now be re-sentenced to life without parole.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that sufficient DNA required for a legal battle over her infant daughter was obtained during the autopsy.
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In a murderous quest aimed at "cleansing" their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County's most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
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Italian prosecutors claim victory against syndicate blamed for 2007 execution of six rivals in German town of Duisburg
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a plea for mercy for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1981 over a drug deal, clearing the way for California's first execution in three years.
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A divided appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man condemned for killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children.
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A nightclub owner, manager and party promoter were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the 2003 stampede that killed 21 people at Chicago's E2 club.