Convicted Killer in Texas Ready to Die
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Convicted killer James Porter figured he did society a favor by fatally beating a child molester, even though he wound up on death row for the slaying. Now he believes he is doing himself a favor by declining to seek any appeals, ensuring a trip to the Texas death chamber Tuesday.
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Gov. Rick Perry should delay tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of a Harris County woman who was condemned for the murders of her husband and two children, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Tuesday.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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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  - Texas executed a former   addict on Tuesday for the 1991 murder of a 52-year-old Houston   paint contractor who refused to hand over money for the man's   drug habit.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active capital punishment state.
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Texas executed a convicted killer by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1998 murder of a woman whose body he sexually molested after he strangled her to death.
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SELMER, Tenn. | A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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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 prison parolee and sex offender was identified as the man suspected of killing five women in the city in a little more than a month, and he could face charges in a sixth death from 2004, authorities said Friday.
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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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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 Briton who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the US is to face a retrial.
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Action on a jury&#39;s recommendation to kill Scott Peterson by lethal injection for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, could be decades away in the state that has more than 600 people on death row.
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One of the notorious Texas Seven, who escaped from prison and killed a police officer during more than a month on the run, has told court officials he wants to drop all appeals to speed up his execution.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.