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Criminal Punishment
SAN FRANCISCO - California prison officials have secured a fresh supply of a lethal injection drug they ran out of last week, contributing to cancellation of the state's first execution in nearly five years.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - It was a crime tailor-made for arguments in favor of the death penalty: A career criminal participates in a night of unfathomable cruelty and terror that leaves a woman and her two young daughters dead in the smoldering ruins of their suburban home.
LUCASVILLE, Ohio - An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday.
ATLANTA - A Georgia death row inmate is asking the courts to delay his execution after he tried to commit suicide.
JARRATT, Va. - The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia on Thursday for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.
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- Washington prepares for 1st execution since 2001
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- California fights to resume state executions
- Judge stays Oklahoma man's execution for 3rd time
- Italian group says executions on the rise in Iraq
- Japan hangs 2 on death row; 1st executions in year
- Md. weighs allowing inmates' own clergy at death
- Texas executes killer of Houston-area nurse
- Firing squad execution sobering, but dramatic
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- Virginia executes inmate who killed 2 men
- Gaza's Hamas rulers execute 3 convicted killers
- 2nd SD parolee in 2 days executed in Texas
- Utah argues against stay in firing squad execution
- Ohio executes man who strangled teen girl in 1988
- Rights group: Europe was execution-free in 2009
- Ohio delays execution of inmate found unconscious
- Ohio: Inmate likely ODs on pills before execution
- APNewsBreak: WA changes execution method
- EU wants global halt on executions by 2015
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