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The United States Supreme Court blocked the execution of a convicted murderer set for Thursday in Alabama.
The Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday blocked the execution of Derrick S. O'Brien, condemned for the 1993 killings of two teenage girls.
The United States Supreme Court blocked the execution of a triple murderer scheduled to die today pending a review of claims that mentally retarded murderers should not be executed.
A federal judge today blocked the execution of a condemned child killer, hours before he was to become the first person to be put to death in Tennessee in 40 years.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the execution of the inmate, Kevin Cooper, and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the state.
A federal appeals court on Monday blocked the execution of the convicted killer Kevin Cooper, reigniting a fierce debate about his guilt and the propriety of 11th-hour legal appeals in death penalty cases.
The Supreme Court, recently in the news for its refusal to block the execution of Troy Davis, begins its new term next week.
Two years ago, Paraguay appealed, unsuccessfully, to the State Department and the governor of Virginia to block the execution of Angel Francisco Breard, who was convicted of murder and attempted rape.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to block the execution of John A. Muhammad, the sniper who terrorized the Washington area seven years ago.
Gov. Frank Keating refused today to block the execution of a woman who was convicted in part on the testimony of a police chemist accused by the F.B.I. of wrongly linking defendants to crime scenes.
