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Death Penalty Controversy
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.
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.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A local judge in Kentucky has halted an execution planned for next week, ruling that the state's protocol for administering a lethal injection does not match up with state law.
TOKYO - Japan hanged two convicted killers Wednesday, including a man who burned six women to death, in the country's first executions in a year, and the justice minister said she wants renewed debate on whether to continue the punishment.
GENEVA - Spain's prime minister says the European Union wants a halt to all executions by 2015 as a step toward abolishing the death penalty.
