Florida executions halted after injection bungled
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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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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in 59 years just hours before it was scheduled Tuesday, saying the state law detailing how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete.
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Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida suspended all executions in the state today, citing a troubled execution on Wednesday.
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Alabama is set to breach an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions on Thursday by putting to death by lethal injection a convicted rapist and murderer.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active capital punishment state.
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The US Supreme Court halts a Mississippi execution as the lethal injection method comes under scrutiny.
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A South Florida couple is suing after being injected about six times each with an unapproved toxin that was more than 200 times stronger than the Botox injections that have become an common anti-wrinkle treatment.
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At least one person has died after being injected with a purported treatment for Lyme disease, health officials said Friday in warning doctors and patients to avoid the unapproved product.
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Two of the patients who became ill after getting Botox injections in Florida are an osteopathic physician and a chiropractor who have lost their licenses.
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TUSCON, Ariz. -- Federal investigators say there may be a link between an Arizona company and anti-wrinkle injections that paralyzed four people in Florida.
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The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt to lethal injections until the justices decide next year whether the procedure amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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A US death row inmate in Florida, whose January execution was delayed at the last minute to allow him to contest the state's lethal execution method as inhumane, faces execution Wednesday after losing a series of court appeals.
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By BRETT BARROUQUERE  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A federal judge turned away a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection method Thursday, saying three death-row inmates first must file a grievance with prison administrators.
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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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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.