Florida, California suspend executions
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Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
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The Texas parole board has recommended delaying the execution of a woman accused of killing her husband and two young children, leaving the chance for a reprieve in the hands of the governor.
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Texas remained the most active death penalty state in 2004 with 23 executions, down from a year ago and about average for the past decade. But legal experts and death penalty opponents suggest there are signs that increased judicial scrutiny is giving pause to juries and prosecutors considering capital punishment.
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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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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 Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for a serial killer who wants to be put to death, but another court order continued to block what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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Posted December 1, 2004 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday halted the execution of Frances Newton, who was scheduled to be the first Black woman executed in the state.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether lethal injection causes excruciating pain for death row inmates and violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." The three dozen states that perform lethal injections use the three-drug mixture at issue in this case.
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A Cambridgeshire heart transplant hospital suspends procedures over a rise in deaths.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Underwater inspections of an aqueduct that supplies water to millions in Southern California have been suspended following the deaths of two state divers, a state official said Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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Alabama is set to breach an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions on Thursday by putting to death by lethal injection a convicted rapist and murderer.
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Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends executions in the US state after a botched death by lethal injection.
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Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton on Wednesday, one day after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that she be temporarily spared while her attorneys retest crucial evidence.