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Associated Press - Smith's first death sentence was thrown out because of a change in Arizona's death penalty statutes. A federal appeals court tossed out second sentence after finding that his lawyers did a poor job at the second sentencing proceeding. In 2004, an ...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram - The man sentenced to death in one of Arlington's notorious "bathtub slayings" is the latest to get a reprieve from the death penalty since the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a case challenging lethal injection, court records show. Dale ...

WRAL - The sentence comes as questions about North Carolina's death penalty have put executions on hold. In August, Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled that the North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority when it adopted a policy that ...

McKinney Courier-Gazette - The players who successfully pursued the death penalty for Kosoul Chanthakoummane: Assistant prosecutor Curtis Howard (from left) lead prosecutor Greg Davis, Joe Walker (who wanted Chanthakoummane to receive a life sentence), Jackie Mull and her ...

Boston Globe - Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if she is convicted. Beyond the Stinnett case, Skidmore has experienced other mysterious tragedies, some of which remain unsolved. First was the death of Ken Rex McElroy, also known as the Skidmore Bully

Washington Post - Since almost all executions are carried out by lethal injection, he said a halt "would mean the most profound hiatus in the operation of the death penalty in at least two decades." The justices review applications for stays on a case-by-case basis ...

Reuters - So far this year, 42 people have been executed in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Last year, there were 53 executions. All but one of the 38 U.S. states with the death penalty and the federal government use lethal ...