Lawsuits Seek to Ban Lethal Injection
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Lethal injection, when used for the first time in Texas nearly 22 years ago, was touted as a more humane way to execute prisoners than the firing squad, hanging, the gas chamber or even the electric chair...
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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MORATORIUM: No prisoner has been put to death in the U.S. since Sept. 25, due to the Supreme Court's current examination of lethal injections.
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WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to ban the death penalty for juveniles who kill, one of the highest-profile questions confronting the justices as they continue re-examining who is subject to capital punishment.
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US Supreme Court agrees to consider challenges to lethal injection filed by two death row inmates.
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.
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When Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a death warrant for a convicted killer this month, he may have done more than start the clock ticking on an execution. Some say Fletcher, a doctor, may have put his medical license at risk.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a death penalty case being watched around the world, to decide whether the lethal injections used to execute criminals cause unacceptable pain.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents the authority to punish Oregon doctors who help their dying patients end their lives.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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A commission reviewing the botched lethal injection of a death row inmate urged Florida's governor find a way to ensure inmates are unconscious before the second and third extremely painful drugs are injected.
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An appeals court in Maryland ruled Tuesday that state executions cannot proceed until a legislative panel reviews parts of the manual that spell out the protocol for lethal injections.
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Although execution by lethal injection is under intense scrutiny, five convicted murderers on Utah's death row await that capital penalty.
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A 30-year old terminally ill woman has launched a legal battle to force doctors to allow her to die.
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SAN JOSE, California  - The judge who effectively shut down California's death row in February said on Friday his ruling on whether the state's use of lethal injection is legal would hinge on evidence of how alert an inmate is as the toxic drugs take effect.
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The use of lethal injection will be expanded in China to replace execution by shooting, a senior legal official said in an interview with a government-owned Chinese newspaper.
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After years of high-stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors in an action seen as an important precedent for the booming private security industry.