Texas Inmate Kills Clerk, Commits Suicide
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An inmate serving a life sentence for sexual assault killed a prison clerk and then committed suicide, authorities said.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
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BAILEY, Colo. -- The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom and killed one of them before taking his own life left a suicide note, the sheriff said Friday.
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Officer Rudolph Zurick, who was mentioned in a note left by two inmates who escaped from the Union County Jail in December, was found dead on Wednesday, apparently from suicide.
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A convicted killer who spent more than a decade on the run with a former prison warden's wife died Wednesday in a prison infirmary, officials said.
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BAILEY, Colo. -- The gunman who killed himself after fatally shooting one of six girls he held in a high school classroom methodically selected his hostages and had sexually assaulted some of them, the sheriff and a witness said Thursday.
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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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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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A state trooper who had stopped to help who he thought was a stranded motorist was shot and killed Thursday by the man, who then reloaded the shotgun and killed himself, state police said.
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One of four men convicted in a botched bank robbery in which four employees and a customer were killed was sentenced to death Wednesday.
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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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Long-time Purcellville business and community leader Edward E. Nichols Jr. apparently killed his wife, Margaret H. Nichols, then killed himself, at their home on Nursery Avenue Friday afternoon, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said today. They were both 87.
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The pro wrestler who strangled his wife and son and committed suicide last month bought injectable steroids excessively, according to court papers released Monday. His doctor was charged with improperly prescribing drugs to other patients.
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An employee at a state school for the developmentally disabled shot a female co-worker, then killed himself, authorities said Saturday.
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A man who was charged this month with raping and kidnapping his estranged wife apparently shot her and three family members to death in separate houses, then killed himself, authorities said Friday.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.
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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.