Texas Board Recommends Death Row Reprieve
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The Texas parole board Tuesday recommended delaying the state's first execution of a black woman to give her lawyers more time to investigate her claims of innocence.
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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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New instructions aimed at ending murder trial deadlock.
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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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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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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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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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The state Board of Pardons and Paroles met behind closed doors Monday to decide whether a convicted police killer who insists he is innocent should be given a reprieve or executed Tuesday as scheduled.
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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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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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By Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Missouri prison officials have until Oct. 27 to submit a revised protocol for putting condemned inmates to death, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.   U.S.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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A convicted killer who had argued that Florida's use of lethal injections amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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UNDATED Governor Rick Perry says giving Frances Newton a 120-day reprieve from her execution was the responsible thing to do. The reprieve Perry granted Wednesday two hours before Newton was to be put to death
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A Texas judge ordered that a hair that could exonerate a man executed for a 1989 murder be preserved for possible DNA testing, a legal reform group said on Monday.
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A commission examining last year's botched lethal injection execution said Sunday it will recommend changes this week aimed at reducing errors in Florida's death row procedures.