Death Penalty Blocked Again in Wendyâs Killings
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New Yorkâs highest court tossed out the death sentence imposed on a man for his role in the murders of five workers at a Wendyâs restaurant in Queens.
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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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The Supreme Court turned down moves to postpone Connecticut's execution of a convicted serial killer. But state officials delayed the execution until Monday.
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Tennessee carried out its second execution in 45 years early Wednesday, and train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz went to his death in Texas by asking his victims&#039; families for forgiveness.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - A bizarre murder case involving a Pentecostal pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny to shoot his wife will go another round in court as both prosecutors and defence lawyers appealed the initial ruling.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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Governor Rick Perry has halted tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston. Perry accepted a recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles that
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence justices previously overturned.
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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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Police appealed for public help in solving the BTK serial killings case again Thursday after tracking down another communication that may have come from the killer.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that a woman who killed her minister-husband with a shotgun can begin supervised visits with her three young daughters, but did not decide whether she can have custody of them.
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Â· Victim murdered in India and body thrown in river Â· Mother-in-law ordered to serve minimum 20 years
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A lawyer representing a Texas death row inmate urged the court to rebuke the state and federal judges who supervise the state's capital punishment system, as oral argument on a case of alleged racial discrimination was heard.
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More than 940 people have been executed since the United States reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Not one was in New England.
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The family of a mentally ill woman murdered by a man and a boy,14, say her death could have been prevented.
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Leslie Van Houten, the former Charles Manson follower convicted of taking part in a murderous rampage that terrorized Los Angeles 37 years ago, was denied parole Thursday for a 16th time.
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ST. LOUIS Thomas Umphrey was spared the death penalty for killing a woman in Illinois. Now, he could go back to death row -- this time in Missouri -- if convicted of killing his boss in St.