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  • September 2008

    • Con Wins Death Stay in Judge Affair Appeal

      ABC News  |  Sep 10, 08 11:48 AM CDT

      Con Wins Death Stay in Judge Affair Appeal

      (Newser) - A Texas death-row inmate who filed an appeal alleging that an affair between the judge and prosecutor compromised his trial has been granted a stay of execution. But, ABC News reports, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals approved Charles Dean Hood's request based not on the affair but because of a problem with jury instructions during his trial for murder and robbery. More »

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      Texas  • affair  • capital punishment  • judge  • execution  • death row  • prosecutor  • Texas capital punishment

    • Death Row Con Wins Hearing Over Courtroom Hanky Panky

      ABC News  |  Sep 5, 08 7:33 AM CDT

      Death Row Con Wins Hearing Over Courtroom Hanky Panky

      (Newser) - A condemned Texas inmate has won a hearing to decide whether his lawyers can question the judge and prosecutor at his capital case trial about an alleged affair the two were having while the proceedings were unfolding, ABC News reports. A former county DA filed a sworn statement last year saying the affair was "common knowledge" at the time. More »

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      Texas  • affair  • capital punishment  • judge  • execution  • death row  • prosecutor

  • August 2008

    • US Officers: We Executed Handcuffed Iraqi Captives

      New York Times  |  Aug 27, 08 5:29 AM CDT

      US Officers: We Executed Handcuffed Iraqi Captives

      (Newser) - Three US officers shot four blindfolded and handcuffed Iraqi detainees early last year and dumped their bodies in a canal, according to statements made to military investigators and obtained by the New York Times . The men are likely to face murder charges. Four others from the same platoon have been charged with murder conspiracy for agreeing to the killings, according to authorities. More »

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      Iraq  • US Army  • Mahdi Army  • execution  • detainees  • Shiite insurgents

    • Texas Defies UN, Executes Killer

      Houston Chronicle  |  Aug 6, 08 2:33 AM CDT

      Texas Defies UN, Executes Killer

      (Newser) - A Mexican national convicted of raping and murdering two girls was executed in Texas yesterday in defiance of an international court. Attorneys for Jose Medellin, 33, had argued that authorities violated an international treaty when Medellin was denied access to Mexican consular officials after his arrest, reports the Houston Chronicle . The United Nations world court ordered a hearing on the issue 4 years ago, but Texas officials refused.    More »

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      murder  • United Nations  • Mexico  • rape  • death penalty  • lethal injection  • execution  • Border Patrol

  • July 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Saddam's Last Days Revealed

      CNN  |  Mar 27, 08 2:10 PM CDT

      Saddam's Last Days Revealed

      (Newser) - The dictator who ruled with a murderous fist spent his time writing in his journal and tending to a small garden his captors allowed him in the prison courtyard. And on his execution day, the man known as "Vic" told guards to tell his daughter he was going to meet God with a clear conscience, a soldier for Iraq. CNN toured Saddam Hussein's detention cell, and reports these details of his last days. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • US military  • Saddam Hussein  • execution  • dictatorship  • Baath Party

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Iraqis Mark Saddam's Death

      Reuters  |  Dec 30, 07 9:51 AM CST

      Iraqis Mark Saddam's Death

      (Newser) - "There is no life without the sun and no dignity without Saddam," read graffiti in the former Iraqi leader’s hometown of Tikrit today, the first anniversary of his execution. Small groups of mourners came to his tomb to praise Saddam Hussein’s accomplishments, reports Reuters, amid tightened security in anticipation of attacks by die-hard supporters. More »

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      Iraq  • Iran  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • Saddam Hussein  • execution  • Tikrit

  • September 2007