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• State auditor: Ala. should speed up executions

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  The auditor said the decades Walter Moody sat on death row was an example of justice delayed equaling justice denied

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  Judge rejects condemned inmate's argument for resentencing

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  Robert Earl Butts Jr., convicted in the slaying of an off-duty CO, argued he should be resentenced because he wouldn't get the death penalty if he were sentenced today

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  Ala. inmate executed for judge's 1989 mail-bomb slaying

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  Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, became the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times

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  Ohio Supreme Court upholds death penalty constitutionality

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  The court rejected a challenge that argued juries and not judges should impose death sentences

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  Package bomber set to be executed for judge's murder

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  A package bomber who created a wave of terror across the South is scheduled to be executed in Alabama, nearly 30 years after killing a federal judge

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  Ark. judge again demonstrates against death penalty

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  Judge Wendell Griffen lay tied to the cot during a demonstration by death penalty opponents

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  Lawyers: Inmate convicted in killing of CO should be resentenced

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  Lawyers for Robert Earl Butts Jr. said the inmate should be resentenced because he wouldn't get the death penalty if he were sentenced today

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  Pipe bomber asks Ala. court to block planned execution

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  Walter Moody argued that Alabama has no right to carry out the death penalty while he's also serving a federal sentence

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  Man convicted in killing of Ga. CO set to be executed

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  Robert Earl Butts Jr. was convicted of killing an off-duty CO after asking him for a ride outside a Walmart in 1996

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  Ala. set to execute oldest death row inmate for pipe bomb murders

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  Walter Moody was convicted of mailing the bomb that killed Judge Robert Vance and seriously injured his wife

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  Court orders tests for CO killer, reopening chance of execution

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  The court said Willie Russell must be re-evaluated to see if he's too intellectually disabled for the death penalty

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  Death sentence upheld for killer of Fla. CO

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  Enoch D. Hall was sentenced to die for beating, strangling and stabbing corrections officer Donna Fitzgeral in 2008

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  News media sue over Calif.'s new execution rules

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  The lawsuit said the new rules would bar journalists from fully reporting on the lethal injection procedure

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  Lawyers plead for lives of last 2 NM death row inmates

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  The lawyers said the inmates' sentences should be vacated because the state no longer believes in executing its worst criminals

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  La.'s top court rules death row inmate can be executed

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  The court ruled that a man sentenced to death for the 1991 fatal stabbing of an elderly couple isn't intellectually disabled and may be executed

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