Some murderers in jail 'too long'
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The Lord Chief Justice says some murderers serve too long, risking jails becoming "full of geriatric lifers".
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An overweight inmate was executed by injection Thursday after a delay of more than an hour while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in his arms.
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Sex offenders are to spend longer in jail under measures to be announced by the Scottish Executive.
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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.
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A study suggests that there are thousands of people serving long sentences for crimes they did not commit but who have no hope that DNA can clear them.
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Drivers who cause death on the roads could be jailed for life, prosecutors propose.
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Up to 1,200 "non-dangerous" offenders walk out of prison up to 18 days early.
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A prison inmate has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women in Los Angeles, including three slayings for which another man was wrongly convicted.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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John Lennon&#39;s killer will remain in jail for at least two more years after being denied parole because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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Three men found guilty of killing a father on the outskirts of Aberdeen get a total of at least 48 years in jail.
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Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed to the vicious, random slayings of 13 women, could be out of prison and back on the streets in a year and a half &#151; unless the state of Michigan can put him away for good in a murder trial set to begin on Monday. An appeals court ruling in Texas took decades off his sentence.
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A Brit who spent 18 years on Pakistan's death row has spoken of his &quot;bolt of shock and fear&quot; when he was sentenced, and then of his long prison life, punctuated by hearing other men hang.
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A man who murdered his teenage fiancee must serve a minimum of 12 years in jail, a judge says,.
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A slaying suspect escaped from a county jail by assuming the identity of another inmate and was on the loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone, officials said. He was still at large Monday morning.
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A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
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A Long Beach man who committed two murders, one of them while behind bars, was sentenced to death by a judge who called him "a Houdini in jail."