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US Man Executed For Raping, Killing Drug Dealer's Girlfriend In 2001
An American man was executed Wednesday in Texas for the 2001 murder of a woman.
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Hospital Employee Kills Wife By Injecting Deadly Drugs In Pune
A 23-year-old male nurse at a hospital in Maharashtra's Pune district allegedly killed his wife by administering her lethal injections and tried to pass it off as a suicide, police said today.
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US Hits Russia With Sanctions Over Nerve Agent Attack In Britain
The United States said Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions on Russia, as it accused the government in Moscow of using a "lethal" nerve agent in the attempted assassination of a former spy in Britain.
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Lacking Lethal Injection Drugs, Virginia May Turn To Electric Chair
Virginia lawmakers are mulling a bill that would allow state officials to use the electric chair to execute those on death row when lethal-injection drugs are not available - a measure that might be needed to put an inmate to death next month.
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US Judge Halts Arkansas Executions
A US judge halted the scheduled executions of eight inmates in Arkansas on Friday, preventing what would have been the state's first lethal injections in a decade amid controversy over the drugs used.
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Oklahoma Governor Stays Execution Over Lethal Injection Drug
The governor of the US state of Oklahoma on Wednesday issued a last-minute stay of execution of an inmate convicted of ordering a murder, amid questions over one of the lethal injection drugs.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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US Supreme Court Backs Use of Controversial Lethal Injection Drug
The US Supreme Court today upheld the use of a controversial sedative in executions by lethal injection, saying it does not violate the Constitution.
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US Supreme Court Takes On Lethal Injections
The US Supreme Court was set to hear arguments about lethal injections Wednesday, after states began using alternative drugs -- believed by some to cause pain and suffering -- to carry out the executions.
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AIDS Crisis Brewing in Crimea and East Ukraine: UN
A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said today.
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Absent Execution Drugs, US State Turns to Electric Chair
The governor of Tennessee has authorized use of the electric chair to execute death row inmates in the event drugs for lethal injections are unavailable.
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US State Mulls Firing Squad for Executions
Prompted by the shortages of available drugs for lethal injections, lawmakers in the western state of Wyoming are considering changing state law to permit execution of condemned inmates by firing squad.
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Ohio killer executed with new lethal drug combo
A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution with the first use of a lethal injection process never before tried in the US.
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US executes drug dealer over turf war killing
A drug dealer convicted of gunning down a rival in Texas 10 years ago was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, US authorities said.
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US Man Executed For Raping, Killing Drug Dealer's Girlfriend In 2001
An American man was executed Wednesday in Texas for the 2001 murder of a woman.
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Hospital Employee Kills Wife By Injecting Deadly Drugs In Pune
A 23-year-old male nurse at a hospital in Maharashtra's Pune district allegedly killed his wife by administering her lethal injections and tried to pass it off as a suicide, police said today.
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US Hits Russia With Sanctions Over Nerve Agent Attack In Britain
The United States said Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions on Russia, as it accused the government in Moscow of using a "lethal" nerve agent in the attempted assassination of a former spy in Britain.
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Lacking Lethal Injection Drugs, Virginia May Turn To Electric Chair
Virginia lawmakers are mulling a bill that would allow state officials to use the electric chair to execute those on death row when lethal-injection drugs are not available - a measure that might be needed to put an inmate to death next month.
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US Judge Halts Arkansas Executions
A US judge halted the scheduled executions of eight inmates in Arkansas on Friday, preventing what would have been the state's first lethal injections in a decade amid controversy over the drugs used.
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Oklahoma Governor Stays Execution Over Lethal Injection Drug
The governor of the US state of Oklahoma on Wednesday issued a last-minute stay of execution of an inmate convicted of ordering a murder, amid questions over one of the lethal injection drugs.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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US Supreme Court Backs Use of Controversial Lethal Injection Drug
The US Supreme Court today upheld the use of a controversial sedative in executions by lethal injection, saying it does not violate the Constitution.
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US Supreme Court Takes On Lethal Injections
The US Supreme Court was set to hear arguments about lethal injections Wednesday, after states began using alternative drugs -- believed by some to cause pain and suffering -- to carry out the executions.
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AIDS Crisis Brewing in Crimea and East Ukraine: UN
A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said today.
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Absent Execution Drugs, US State Turns to Electric Chair
The governor of Tennessee has authorized use of the electric chair to execute death row inmates in the event drugs for lethal injections are unavailable.
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US State Mulls Firing Squad for Executions
Prompted by the shortages of available drugs for lethal injections, lawmakers in the western state of Wyoming are considering changing state law to permit execution of condemned inmates by firing squad.
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Ohio killer executed with new lethal drug combo
A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution with the first use of a lethal injection process never before tried in the US.
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US executes drug dealer over turf war killing
A drug dealer convicted of gunning down a rival in Texas 10 years ago was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, US authorities said.
