Calif. to Execute Inmate in 1981 Slayings
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California could see its first execution in nearly three years early Wednesday unless a last-minute appeal is granted or if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger grants him clemency.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday he would consider releasing nonviolent inmates to reduce overcrowding in the country's largest prison system.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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MCALESTER, Oklahoma  - Oklahoma executed a man by  lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a 2-year-old girl in  1987.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's corrections secretary said Friday that the state will create a commission to review sentencing guidelines for felons, potentially a key step in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to relieve prison overcrowding.
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Citing "grisly and senseless  killings," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined on Tuesday to  grant clemency to murderer Donald Beardslee, setting the stage  for California's first execution in three years.
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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 death row inmate was executed early Friday for the 1992 rape and slaying of a 7-year-old girl.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was executed by  lethal injection on Tuesday for the robbery and murder more  than 20 years ago of a man carrying $13 in his wallet.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois&#39; governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence - this time in Missouri - if convicted of murdering his boss in St.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas on Tuesday executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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A former football hero and celebrity at Aldine High School was executed Tuesday evening for killing a man 10 years ago. Seconds before he was executed, Demarco McCullum said he loved his mother and expected to see her in heaven.
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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 Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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IONE, California  - Convicted murderer Greg Rollo knows the brutality of life behind bars after 31 years in a prison. But he says life has grown much worse since he was moved to a triple-bunk bed in an open gym with 199 others.