Suicide exposes squalor in Texas prison
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After months alone in his cell, Scot Noble Payne finished 20 pages of letters, describing to loved ones the decrepit conditions of the prison where he was serving time for molesting a child.
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Jailhouse letters passed under food trays and doorways to a female inmate offer glimpses into the attention-seeking, flirtatious musings of a man who killed and dismembered his wife.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a man on Thursday who confessed to killing three people in a 1999 robbery, including two who were injected with cleaning fluid before they were stabbed to death.
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WFAA-TV in Dallas is reporting that Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens attempted to commit suicide Tuesday night.
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A woman convicted in the shooting death of her preacher husband was moved from a county jail to a mental health facility, officials said Thursday.
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The state of Texas executed a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Wednesday, in its 400th execution since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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Accused of molesting an 12-year-old boy, a despondent teacher wrote suicide notes &#151; to his family, his alleged victim and the trooper he expected would find his body &#151; before slashing his wrists in a failed attempt to take his life.
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A prison guard named in a note left by two inmates who escaped from a New Jersey jail commits suicide.
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Two home secretaries were warned of conditions in a prison where an Asian inmate was  battered to death.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons rose significantly in 2007, figures show.
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A Brit who spent 18 years on Pakistan's death row has spoken of his &quot;bolt of shock and fear&quot; when he was sentenced, and then of his long prison life, punctuated by hearing other men hang.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit....
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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Overcrowding in jails is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.