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Federal officials try to block Texas execution to allow review of case 30 Jul 2008 | 04:22 pm

Fourteen years and numerous judicial reviews have passed since José Medellin was sentenced to die after confessing to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.

US Supreme Court urged to revisit death penalty for child rape 30 Jul 2008 | 04:21 pm

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Justice Department has appealed to nation's highest court to re-hear a major death penalty case involving sentencing for child rapists, saying the ruling was made without all...

Execution by Military Is Approved by President 30 Jul 2008 | 04:19 pm

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two d...

Federal judge upholds Missouri execution procedure 19 Jul 2008 | 02:41 am

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri's lethal-injection procedure is not cruel or unusual punishment, possibly ending a series of lawsuits that kept the state's death chamber closed for nearly ...

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. 19 Jul 2008 | 02:37 am

SHERMAN, Texas — A death row inmate condemned for a 1983 quadruple slaying got at least another two-week reprieve Thursday when a judge postponed deciding whether old evidence will undergo DNA testing...

Ga. death row inmate appeals to US Supreme Court 19 Jul 2008 | 02:32 am

WASHINGTON - A Georgia man convicted of killing a police officer is asking the Supreme Court to grant him a hearing based on witnesses who recanted their testimony and others who say another man confe...

Lawyers: Ark. execution method 'dangerous' 19 Jul 2008 | 02:24 am

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Lawyers for four Arkansas death-row inmates say "botched" executions show that the state's lethal injection method remains dangerous and inadequate.

Bishop appeals to two courts to stop execution 19 Jul 2008 | 02:21 am

GREENVILLE - Dale Leo Bishop, scheduled for execution July 23 for his role in a Saltillo murder, says two recent developments in his appeals for a stay deserve the U.S. District Court's attention. In...

Convicted Cop Killer Moves Closer To Execution 19 Jul 2008 | 02:19 am

HOUSTON (AP) - An appeals court has denied a third retrial for a former University of Texas honors student condemned for killing an Austin policeman. Investigators say David Lee Powell killed Officer...

Texas Turns Aside Pressure on Execution of 5 Mexicans 19 Jul 2008 | 02:14 am

HOUSTON — Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row, a spokeswoman for t...

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