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• High court won't consider Tenn. death row inmate's case

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  The Supreme Court wouldn't hear the case of an inmate who was charged with robbing, kidnapping, murdering and burying alive three people

• Supreme Court rules out death penalty for Texas inmate

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  The Houston district attorney agreed that the inmate should be spared the death penalty

• Ala. executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present

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  The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had stayed the execution over the religious arguments, but the U.S. Supreme Court allowed it to proceed

• Appeals court blocks Ala. execution of Muslim inmate

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  A Circuit Court of Appeals granted an indefinite stay for the inmate a day before he was scheduled to be executed for slaying a teenager two decades ago

• Death penalty sought for inmate charged with killing 2 Kan. LEOs

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  The inmate is charged with the deaths of deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King, who were killed while transporting him back to jail after a hearing

• Last of Ark. execution drugs expire, law fix sought

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  Legislators are expected to consider changes to state law that will allow them to resume executions

• Ala. inmate can be executed without chaplain present

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  The state say(s) a Christian prison chaplain does not have to be present for the Muslim inmate's execution

• SC senators resurrect bill to bring back the electric chair

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  The bill is an attempt to address inabilities to carry out lethal injections because of the lack of chemicals needed

• Texas inmate executed for Houston officer's death

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  Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the July 1988 fatal shooting of Officer Elston Howard during a robbery

• Condemned Ala. inmate says state violating his religious rights

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  A Muslim inmate said the state violated his rights by having a Christian prison chaplain stand near him while he's executed

• Texas inmate set to be executed for Houston officer's death

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  Death row inmate Robert Jennings was condemned for the 1988 slaying of Officer Elston Howard during a robbery

• State opposes condemned man's request to delay execution

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  Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says death row inmate Warren Keith Henness' motion is an abuse of the court system

• Nev. inmate whose execution called off found dead in cell

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  Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found unresponsive in his solo death-row cell at the state's maximum-security prison

• Ind. officials drop execution bid in 7-year-old's death

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  U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibited the inmate's execution because of her disability

• St. Louis man accused of 9 killings; death penalty sought

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  Several of the victims were killed while inside vehicles or in drive-by shootings

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