California Executes First Inmate in Three Years
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death by lethal  injection on Wednesday, in the the first execution in the state  for three years.
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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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A man convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman was executed Thursday, becoming the first person in the United States to die in the electric chair in more than two years.
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MIAMI, July 16 -- One day before he was to die by lethal injection, convicted cop killer Troy Davis received a 90-day stay of execution Monday from a Georgia clemency board, allowing him time to press his case that he has been the victim of mistaken identity.
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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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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger pardoned three men convicted of drug crimes, the  first pardons issued by a governor of the nation's most  populous state in almost six years.
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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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Gov. Charlie Crist signed his first death warrant Wednesday, ending a temporary halt on lethal injections that had been imposed after a botched execution last year.
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Japan executed Friday three prisoners on death row, the Justice Ministry announced.
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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As many as 5,000 California convicts will be transferred out of state to ease an overcrowding crisis in the nation's largest prison system, a top corrections official said Friday.
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Gov. Bob Riley stayed the execution of a contract killer Thursday, hours before it was to have been carried out, so the inmate could be put to death using a new lethal injection formula the governor had ordered just a day earlier.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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California executes a murderer in the first death sentence carried out under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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The 16 minutes it took Christopher Newton to die once chemicals began flowing into his veins was the longest stretch that any of the state's inmates executed since 1999 has endured, an Associated Press review shows.
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A man convicted of murdering the manager of a topless bar 27 years ago was executed by injection Wednesday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals.
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A man convicted in the slayings of a South Texas mother and her teenage son at their home nine years ago was executed Thursday.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.