S.D. governor halts execution of killer
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Gov. Mike Rounds halted South Dakota's first execution in 59 years just hours before it was scheduled Tuesday, saying the state law detailing how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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Florida's governor ends a temporary halt on capital punishment that was imposed after a botched execution.
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The state of Texas executed a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Wednesday, in its 400th execution since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley on Monday rejected calls to postpone this week's execution of convicted serial killer Daniel Lee Siebert despite his terminal cancer and a national controversy over lethal injections.
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Problems at a Houston crime lab have led to a moratorium n executions.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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The Connecticut execution of a serial killer who wants to die is halted less than an hour before it is due to happen.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Huntsville -- Governor Rick Perry is considering whether to delay Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.
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The state postponed plans Monday to execute a serial killer after he agreed to have his mental competency examined, delaying for at least a month what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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FLORIDA governor Jeb Bush suspended all state executions after an expert said prison chiefs botched the insertion of needles when a killer was put to death on Wednesday. It took 34 minutes for Angel Diaz, above, to die - twice as long as usual - and heneeded two doses of chemicals.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.