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- Condemned killer spared by Texas governor
  Posted by Jeff from Chron
  Gov. Rick Perry, in a rare and uncharacteristic move Thursday, spared the life of condemned prisoner Kenneth Foster, hours before he was to be executed for his role in a San Antonio robbery-shooting.
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- Georgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate
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  The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles temporarily halted the execution of Troy Anthony Davis on Monday, issuing a 90-day stay of execution less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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- Mont. Senate votes against death penalty
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Efforts to abolish the death penalty have failed in each of the past three legislative sessions. There are currently two prisoners on death row in Montana and the state has executed three people since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s. The most recent execution, of convicted murderer David Dawson, occurred just last year.
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- Cavuto asked if NY Times is "in mourning again because murderers in Iraq face justice"
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  On the January 16 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto asked if The New York Times is "in mourning again" as a result of the recent hanging deaths of Saddam Hussein's half brother and another Saddam deputy, or as Cavuto put it, "because murderers in Iraq face justice." As Media...
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- Former Miss Canada hopes to get Iranian woman off death row
  Posted by Jeff from Canada
  My friend Shannon told me about this tonight at dinner. Apparently, Miss Canada has been working for several years to prevent the execution of a rape-victim in Iran who murdered the man raping her in an act of self-defense.
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- Amnesty International Criticizes Sadaam's Execution and Unfair Trial
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  We oppose the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, but it is especially abhorrent when this most extreme penalty is imposed after an unfair trial," Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a statement.
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- Florida Halts Executions After Injection Problem
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Separately, a federal judge in California imposed a moratorium on executions in the nation's most populous state, declaring that the state's method of lethal injection runs the risk of violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Death penalty

Condemned killer spared by Texas governor

Georgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate

Mont. Senate votes against death penalty

Cavuto asked if NY Times is "in mourning again because murderers in Iraq face justice"

Former Miss Canada hopes to get Iranian woman off death row

Amnesty International Criticizes Sadaam's Execution and Unfair Trial

Florida Halts Executions After Injection Problem

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