Judge Grants Reprieve to Texas Inmate
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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.
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A Georgia man condemned to die received a stay of execution on Thursday in the latest reprieve since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to rule on a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge on Monday gave California officials six months to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system, warning that court-ordered remedies could include limiting the inmate population and releasing some prisoners early.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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The path to the nation's busiest death chamber winds through a court of last resort where the presiding judge recently refused to keep her office open past 5 p.m. to accept a last-minute appeal from an inmate about to be executed.
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HOPE, Ark. - A Hempstead County prisoner returning from a dentist's appointment Monday morning used a stolen dental pick to commandeer a jail transport vehicle and escape.
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A former state senator released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme must return to jail, an appeals court ruled Monday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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A judge who wore blackface makeup, handcuffs and a jail jumpsuit at a Halloween party will be suspended for six months, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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A judge on Friday ordered that a British man wanted in the United States for allegedly aiding terrorists be held for 28 more days as lawyers prepare for an extradition hearing.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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Judges in Pakistan have ruled that a top scientist arrested last year for allegedly being involved in leaking nuclear technology should have his detention extended for a further three months.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, who gained notoriety as the &quot;Railroad Killer&quot; linked to at least 15 murders across the country, is mentally competent to be executed next week for the 1998 rape-slaying of a Texas doctor.
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A federal judge approved a settlement agreement that calls for changes at a former Texas prison where illegal immigrant children are detained with their families.
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A military judge in Fort Hood, Texas, sentenced a court-martialed Army Reserve intelligence interrogator from Randolph yesterday to 10 months in confinement after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, officials said.
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A judge had valid reasons for sentencing a 5-foot-1 sex offender to probation, even though she cited the offender's height as part of her rationale, the Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
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A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.