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Florida set to execute man for 1978 police killing
Sep 28, 2011 08:44 EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuters) - A man convicted of killing a Coral Gables police officer in 1978 is scheduled to die on Wednesday, the first inmate in Florida to be executed since the state changed its lethal injection procedure.
Ohio governor commutes sentence of death row inmate
Sep 26, 2011 20:07 EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich on Monday commuted the death sentence of convicted killer Joseph Murphy to life without the possibility of parole, his second such action in the past three months.
Texas kills fancy last meal requests on death row
Sep 23, 2011 08:43 EDT
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The Texas prison system on Thursday abolished the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they would get standard prison fare instead.
Texas kills fancy last meal requests on death row
Sep 22, 2011 20:14 EDT
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The Texas prison system on Thursday abolished the time-honored tradition of offering an opulent last meal to condemned inmates before their executions, saying they would get standard prison fare instead.
Analysis: High-profile Davis execution raises questions
Sep 22, 2011 17:54 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Controversy at home and abroad over the execution of Troy Davis, who was put to death in the United States late on Wednesday for the 1989 killing of a policeman, has renewed questions about the death penalty.
Texas executes man in race-motivated dragging death
Sep 21, 2011 21:17 EDT
AUSTIN (Reuters) - Texas executed a white supremacist on Wednesday convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck in what some call the most notorious race crime of the post-Civil Rights era.
Davis execution nears despite high-profile campaign
Sep 21, 2011 03:47 EDT
The countdown to the execution of Troy Davis entered its final hours Wednesday despite a high-profile campaign to spare the American convicted of killing an off-duty policeman.
US execution nears despite high-profile campaign
Sep 21, 2011 03:44 EDT
The countdown to the execution of Troy Davis entered its final hours Wednesday despite a high-profile campaign to spare the American convicted of killing an off-duty policeman.
Troy Davis issues parting cry before execution
Sep 20, 2011 22:50 EDT
Troy Davis, an American convicted two decades ago of killing an off-duty policeman, has urged opponents of the death penalty to fight on after he is executed Wednesday following a failed bid for clemency.
US death row inmate issues parting cry
Sep 20, 2011 22:47 EDT
Troy Davis, an American convicted two decades ago of killing an off-duty policeman, has urged opponents of the death penalty to fight on after he is executed Wednesday following a failed bid for clemency.
Supreme Court grants stay of execution in Texas case
Sep 20, 2011 18:19 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a stay of execution for a Texas death row inmate, Cleve Foster, a 47-year-old former Army recruiter who was convicted of a 2002 murder and rape.
Supreme Court grants stay of execution in Texas case
Sep 20, 2011 17:51 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a stay of execution for a Texas death row inmate, Cleve Foster, a 47-year-old former Army recruiter who was convicted of a 2002 murder and rape.
Troy Davis loses final appeal in US death row case
Sep 20, 2011 17:35 EDT
A US parole board has denied clemency to Troy Davis, clearing the way for his execution Wednesday in a racially charged case that has become an international cause celebre for death penalty opponents.
Connecticut home invasion survivor says was bound in basement
Sep 20, 2011 15:46 EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn (Reuters) - A Connecticut doctor who survived a home invasion that killed his wife and two daughters testified on Tuesday that he had been bound and tied in his basement and did not know what was happening to his family upstairs.
Texas execution on Tuesday will be first of two this week
Sep 20, 2011 08:36 EDT
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept 20 - Texas on Tuesday evening is scheduled to execute a man for the rape and murder of a young woman he met in a bar in Fort Worth, one of two executions the state has scheduled this week.
Defense in Connecticut home invasion case aims to shift blame
Sep 19, 2011 19:24 EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn (Reuters) - Attorneys for a man accused in a grisly home invasion sought on Monday to attach much of the blame on an accomplice, arguing he was the one who wanted to murder a mother and her two daughters.
Opening remarks in Connecticut home invasion trial begin Monday
Sep 18, 2011 13:57 EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn (Reuters) - Opening statements in the grisly home invasion trial of a second accused man were set to begin on Monday, after a judge rejected a flurry of defense moves aimed at avoiding the fate of his alleged accomplice, who has been convicted and sentenced to death.
Texas set to execute man in racially-charged Houston murders
Sep 15, 2011 08:57 EDT
AUSTIN, Tex (Reuters) - Texas on Thursday is set to execute a Houston man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and another man in front of the woman's children, and then telling police that she "deserved what she got."
Texas executes man for Dallas-area slayings
Sep 13, 2011 20:07 EDT
AUSTIN Tex (Reuters) - Texas on Tuesday executed a man who was convicted for his involvement in the slayings of two people in north Texas, even though an alleged accomplice admitted to the killings.
Texas executes man for Dallas-area slayings
Sep 13, 2011 20:05 EDT
AUSTIN Tex (Reuters) - Texas on Tuesday executed a man who was convicted for his involvement in the slayings of two people in north Texas, even though an alleged accomplice admitted to the killings.
