Convicted adulterer stoned to death
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A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution.
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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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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - The state of Ohio on Thursday put to death a man who killed his prison cellmate, after executioners worked for more than an hour to find the right veins in which to inject lethal chemicals.
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Michael Griffith is about to pay with his life for violating the law he once swore to enforce.
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A man convicted in the fatal beating of a grandmother as she prayed for her life became the first person sentenced to death in Vermont in half a century Friday.
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A County Tyrone man is sentenced to life imprisonment for the manslaughter of a 76-year-old neighbour.
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The assisted-suicide enthusiast, who says he helped some 130 people kill themselves, is in prison for the 1998 murder of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig&#39;s disease.
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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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A 20-year-old white man convicted of beating a black man with a baseball bat was sentenced to 15 years behind bars, with the victim calling him a &quot;wretched person.&quot;
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A man who urinated on a disabled woman as she lay dying in the street while his friend filmed the incident was sentenced Friday to three years in prison.
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A man due to go on trial for the murder of a restaurant owner is found dead in his prison cell.
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A millionaire paedophile who once boasted of beating his own "record" of abuse, is given a life sentence.
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After fighting for years to clear his name, a prominent marijuana advocate known as the &quot;ganja guru&quot; was convicted again on Wednesday on charges of cultivating and distributing the weed.
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A condemned killer was executed Tuesday night for the fatal prison beating of a convicted child molester.
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An Iraqi court on Monday raised the sentence against Saddam Hussein's vice president to death by hanging for the killings of Shiites in the town of Dujail.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A prisoner convicted of  killing a man during a 1994 robbery was put to death on  Wednesday in the first of two scheduled executions this week in  Texas.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.