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Mentally disabled man wins execution stay in Florida
A convicted murderer who has spent 34 years on death row won a last minute stay of execution, as judges agreed to consider whether he was mentally competent. John Ferguson, who says he is the “Prince of God” and had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, had been scheduled to be…
Supreme Court halts execution of Texas inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of a black man convicted 16 years ago of a double murder in Texas after his lawyers argued his jury was unfairly tainted by racial testimony. The justices stayed the the lethal injection of 48-year-old Duane Buck pending a review of…
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