Report defends 1995 Missouri execution
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Missouri did not execute an innocent man when Larry Griffin was put to death in 1995, the St. Louis circuit attorney said in a report Thursday.
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Until now, the courtâs 1977 re-examination of capital punishment had been widely understood as limiting the death penalty to the crime of murder.
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order staying the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer, as part of its decision to review the legality of lethal injections nationwide.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Dec 28, 2004 - A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb made her initial appearance Tuesday before a federal judge in Missouri.
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An anonymous donor has posted a &#36;100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era &#151; the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
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By Ian Berry, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 8--Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey says a recent Hamilton County grand jury report that blasts oversight of the Silverdale Workhouse included "blanket statements" that did not reflect all of the facts.
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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 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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A report into the treatment of Michael Stone, who killed Lin and Megan Russell 10 years ago, is set to be published.
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A report into the care and treatment of Michael Stone, who killed Lin and Megan Russell 10 years ago, is set to be published.
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The jurors deciding whether Scott Peterson should be executed or spend life in prison for killing his pregnant wife requested additional evidence Monday, including autopsy
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FBI evidence used to convict Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols goes on display Friday at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, even as a congressman and others continue to raise questions about the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people.
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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, undeterred by a Supreme Court review of whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges against the use of lethal injection, according to a report by a group that opposes capital punishment.
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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.