Texas Board Recommends Execution Delay
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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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The first execution of a black woman in Texas since the American civil war was delayed at the 11th hour yesterday when the state governor granted a reprieve pending new tests on evidence.
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The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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HUNTSVILLE -- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a delay in Wednesday&#39;s scheduled execution of Frances Newton.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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PLANO, Texas Electronic Data Systems today delayed releasing its third-quarter financial results -- until November third. The extra time will let auditors finish evaluating a money-losing contract to provide computer services to the Navy.
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New rules prevent Tom DeLay from having to step down as majority leader if he is indicted in an investigation in Texas.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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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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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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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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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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The state parole board recommended Thursday that the governor spare Kenneth Foster, a condemned inmate scheduled for execution later in the day for being the getaway driver in a 1996 murder.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  killing a bank employee during a 1982 robbery in Dallas was  executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.
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The US Supreme Court stopped an execution because a Texas jury had not taken into account a convicted murderer's low intelligence, as well his age at the time of the killing.
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Widows must wait longer for results because coroner has yet to receive promised funds.
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The state Medical Board will appeal a judge's decision that the panel overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions.