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• Convicted killers in South Florida avoiding death row under new law

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  Juries must unanimously find at least one aggravating factor justifying the imposition of the death penalty under the new law

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  Condemned killer spared after extent of childhood abuse revealed

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  The governor commuted the sentence of death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts to life without the possibility of parole

• Ark. officials: Search for lethal injection drugs on hold

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  Arkansas does not have a supply of vecuronium bromide, one of the three drugs used in the lethal injection process

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  Texas executes man for 2004 slaying of store owner

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  Christopher Young became the eighth prisoner put to death this year in Texas, one more than all of 2017 in the nation's busiest capital punishment state

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  Ohio executes killer who stabbed man to death in 1985

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  Robert Van Hook was sentenced to die for fatally strangling and stabbing a man he met in a bar in 1985

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  Ohio begins preparations to execute inmate who stabbed man to death

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  Ohio moved a condemned killer to the state death house Tuesday as officials began preparations for the state's first execution in several months

• Order barring La. executions is extended by 1 year

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  At the request of state authorities, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick agreed to impose a 12-month extension in an order temporarily staying all executions in Louisiana

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  Texas store owner's killer set for execution

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  Christopher Young's execution would be the eighth this year in Texas, one more than all of last year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state

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  Federal judge allows open phone line during Ohio execution

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  Under the order, attorneys for death row inmate Robert Van Hook and an assistant attorney general will be on the line with the judge in case something goes awry

• La. seeks 1-year extension in halt to executions

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  A lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection protocols has blocked Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences since 2014

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  Nev. execution halted after drug company sues to stop it

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  Hours before he was to be put to death, Scott Dozier was spared execution Wednesday when a Nevada judge granted an injunction

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  8 Ala. inmates ask for execution by nitrogen gas

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  A lawsuit challenging Alabama's lethal injection process took an unexpected turn after the inmates asked to be executed by nitrogen gas

• Plan would further restrict Ark. execution drug info

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  Arkansas' governor says he supports an effort that would keep the manufacturers and labels of state's lethal injection drug supply off-limits to the public

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  Texas death row inmates go high-tech in longshot bid for clemency

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  With the rise of the internet, many are harnessing its power to beg for a second chance at life

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  Death row inmate who killed man over rims denied federal appeal

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  Death row inmate Teddrick Batiste lost out on a federal appeal despite claims of bad lawyering and brain damage

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