Guilty plea ends long death-penalty appeal saga
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Johnny Paul Penry, whose Texas death sentence was overturned three times in a 25-year, precedent-setting series of appeals, has pleaded guilty and been given three life sentences, his lawyer said on Saturday.
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An appeal hearing agrees to Kenny Richey's release from prison after the Scot spent 20 years on death row.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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PLEA DEAL: Ending a two-year federal investigation, former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy to steal honest services.
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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A man convicted of killing a police officer won a reprieve a day before his scheduled execution, after his lawyers argued that several witnesses had recanted or changed their testimony.
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Andrew Fastow had agreed to serve a maximum 10-year term when he pleaded guilty in 2004.
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The jury in the Scott Peterson murder trial reached a verdict this morning over whether Peterson should live the rest of life in prison or be put to death for the murders of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son.
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A military court finds a U.S. soldier guilty of murdering an unarmed Iraqi, but pares down the sentence in apparent sympathy with his claim of exhaustion
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Sweden's highest court on Friday wrapped up its trial of the man who killed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh last year, with prosecutors demanding that he be put away behind bars for life.
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A man has decided to plead guilty to murder for the death of his 3-year-old foster son left bound up in a closet while he went to a family reunion, his attorney and the prosecutor said Monday.
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MOSCOW -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences yesterday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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An appeals court in Ohio is reported to have overturned the conviction and death sentence on a British man.
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A federal appeals court cleared the  way on Friday for Connecticut to execute a serial killer who  wants to die but gave the man's father a last-minute chance to  ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
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The guilty plea is the latest blow to a powerhouse firm that once dominated the landscape for class-action securities lawsuits.
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A woman convicted of murder and given a life sentence in the stabbing death of a teenage rival lost a new bid for freedom Tuesday in her long-running appeals battle.
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A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to murder after his lawyer and prosecutors mistakenly told him that he risked being executed if he didn't confess isn't entitled to a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled.