Criminal Punishment
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown point to election-year politics as the reason their client was suddenly scheduled for a lethal injection this week after a five-year execution hiatus in the state.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court is delaying the execution of a condemned man who attempted suicide hours before he was to be put to death by injection.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - In less than a month, judges in Kentucky and California have barred their respective states from executing inmates because of problems with the way the states put their lethal injection procedures into place.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state's Supreme Court has lifted the stay of execution for a death row inmate who claimed the state's method of lethal injection violated constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment.
SAN ANTONIO - The top criminal judge in Texas was spared her job Friday but still punished by a state panel, which reprimanded Sharon Keller for her fumbled handling of a death row inmate's final appeal the night of his 2007 execution.
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- Texas man with low IQ asks court to spare his life
- Court turns down Calif. death row inmate's appeal
- Parole board won't spare Ohio mutilation killer
- Texas man executed for beating death
- Ohio can't find doctors to offer execution advice
- Judge postpones another Ohio inmate's execution
- Ohio court: Forge ahead with next inmate execution
- Va. gov: No reason to stop sniper execution
- British woman on Texas death row loses appeal
- Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try
- Lawyers want info after failed Ohio execution
- Texas man executed for drug dealer's slaying
- No retrial for condemned man after judge-DA affair
- DC sniper mastermind's execution set for November
- Ohio death row inmate denied stay
- State seeks execution for 2 in Ore. bank bombing
