Wildlife researchers Patricia Cramer and John Bissonette scanned
the bushes and brush amid patches of snow, looking for signs of mule deer.
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The American Bar Assn., concluding a three-year study of capital
punishment systems, found so many inequities and shortfalls that it
is calling for a national freeze on executions.
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A federal judge has ordered Iowa authorities to retry or release a
man convicted of one of the most notorious slayings in the state’s
history – the murder of a farmer, his wife and two young children in
Cedar Falls, Iowa, more than 30 years ago.
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A federal judge has ordered Iowa authorities to retry or release a
man convicted of one of the most notorious slayings in the state’s
history – the murder of a farmer, his wife and two young children in
Cedar Falls, Iowa, more than 30 years ago.
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For many years, few questioned whether Carlos DeLuna deserved to die.
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On April 23, 1918, with the
U.S. in the depths of World War I, Fred
Rodewald, a German immigrant homesteader who had settled with his
family on 320 acres in eastern Montana, uttered a sentence that
forever changed his life.
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The official ranks of Hurricane Katrina’s dead include a New Orleans
man fatally shot nearly a week after the hurricane struck, an elderly
nursing home patient who died 16 days after the storm and a toddler
who drowned in a Texas hotel hot tub almost a month after being evacuated.
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As hundreds of Louisiana families wait to claim the bodies of loved
ones still lying anonymously in crowded morgues, the state medical
examiner is investigating at least one parish coroner for allegedly
disposing of Hurricane Katrina victims improperly.
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