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Texas court delays execution of man on death row

Alabama sets execution for man convicted of 2010 rape and murder who asked to be put to death

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court approved that request on March 11.

CBS Texas on MSN · 2d

Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young women found buried in the desert near El Paso.

KVUE-TV Austin on MSN · 1d

Stay granted for Texas death row inmate 2 days before scheduled execution

The state's Court of Criminal Appeals halted death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution two days before it was set to happen.

KTSM El Paso on MSN · 2d

Texas appeals court blocks execution of David Leonard Wood

David Leonard Wood, the man sentenced to die for the 1987 deaths of six girls and young women whose bodies were buried in the Northeast El Paso desert, was scheduled to be executed on Thursday

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CNN · 6d

South Carolina death row inmate to be executed by firing squad for first time in 15 years

CNN’s Ryan Young reports 67-year-old Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of a double murder, is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that has not been used in the United States in almost 15 years,

FOX News on MSN · 1d

Idaho becomes first state to prefer death by firing squad for executions

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death by lethal injection the second preferred method.

Idaho Statesman on MSN · 1d

‘More humane’? Idaho becomes only state to prefer firing squad to carry out death penalty

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

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Texas execution of 'desert killer,' on death row for 30 years, blocked by court

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

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'I'm angry': Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent as execution nears

by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police force couldn’t find a single shred of evidence of anything,” Wood told ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN2d

Stay granted for Texas death row inmate two days before scheduled execution

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

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Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

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Death row inmate set for nitrous gas execution, his attorneys say it violates his 4th amendment right

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

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Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

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Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

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New brief filed by former prosecutors urges new trial for Alabama death row inmate

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

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Death-row inmate deserves new trial, ex-U.S. Senator, former Alabama AG urge in ‘unusual’ request

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

After Nevada prison brawl kills 3 inmates, 20 people are charged

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.

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