Ohio death row inmate gets new hearing
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.
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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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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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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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A Belfast man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2002 is due to hear if his jail term is to be extended.
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WASHINGTON â The Supreme Court on Monday heard starkly different descriptions of Kentuckyâs method of putting people to death, with a lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserting there is an unacceptable risk of agony and a lawyer for the state saying nothing could be further from the truth.
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A head teacher jailed for dangerous driving faces a hearing to decide if he is fit to continue in his job.
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An aging, reputed Ku Klux Klansman is facing life in prison at his sentencing hearing in federal court Friday for his role in the abduction and killing of two black teenagers more than 43 years ago.
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The Supreme Court said Thursday it will quickly release audio tapes after the Jan. 7 argument over the death penalty.
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By Ed Meyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 21--RAVENNA -- Portage County prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a gag order to Randy Resh, Bob Gondor and their defense lawyers before they get a new day in court in a decades-old murder case.
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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A Scottish man on death row in the US is to face a retrial after his conviction was overturned a second time.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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The nearly 640 inmates on California's already backlogged death row could get hearings to argue that they're mentally retarded and should be spared under new guidelines, a top state lawyer said.
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By Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--Did you hear the one about the Death Row inmate who wanted to tell a joke at his execution? It's not funny.   Patrick Knight, Texas inmate No. 999072, is scheduled to die June 26 for killing his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, in 1991.
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Death row Scot Kenny Richey is returned to jail in Ohio following a heart scare, it emerges.
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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.