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Utah death row inmate seeks stay of execution

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:41pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A death row inmate is asking a Utah judge for a stay of an April 5 execution by firing squad while he pursues a review of his state conviction and sentence in the federal courts.

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Execution date set for convicted Utah killer

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has set an April 5 execution date for a Utah State Prison inmate on death row since 1989.

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Dalton Windley, serving a life sentence for killing a man, wants to donate a kidney and an eye "to do some good." (SHNS photo by Josh Shaffer / Raleigh News & Observer)

Inmate wants to donate kidney, eye 'to do some good'

Josh Shaffer News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 5:17pm

TILLERY, N.C. -- When he was 20, Dalton Windley fetched a .22-caliber rifle from his car, aimed it from the hip and fired a single shot at Glenn Brame from about 150 yards, catching the young man in the neck.

They'd been arguing over a girl. Windley knows it doesn't matter, but he insists he didn't mean to kill. Those few seconds of wildness got him a life sentence in prison and, after nearly 20 years, he doesn't expect to get out.

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Danny Hembree,is seen in an undated photo provided by the N.C. Department of Public Safety. Hembree, a death row inmate accused of killing three North Carolina women, has written a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper, saying he’ll spend many years as a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV and enjoying frequent naps. “Kill me if you can, suckers,” Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. wrote in a letter to The Gaston Gazette. A story about the letter and its contents was published on the front page of the Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 edition. Hembree is on North Carolina’s death row for suffocating Heather Catterton, 17, in 2009. He's also accused of killing two other women. (AP Photo/N.C. Department of Public Safety)

Death row inmate taunts, 'Kill me if you can, suckers'

David Zucchino Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 10:46am

DURHAM, N.C. -- Danny Robbie Hembree considers himself a gentleman of leisure. He enjoys color TV, air conditioning and abundant food. He naps pretty much whenever he feels like it.

He also happens to live on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. But that's not a bad thing, he wrote in a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper, the Gaston Gazette.

In fact, Hembree wrote, the state of North Carolina has taken the "death" out of death row.

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Inmate's lawsuit calls prison food 'cruel and unusual' punishment

Stephan Hudak The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 10:30am

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lake Correctional Institution inmate Eric Harris has a beef with prison food.

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(KHIN MAUNG WIN/The Associated Press) Myanmar women prisoners walk outside Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 after they were released. Myanmar has begun releasing more then 6,300 prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political prisoners. The releases began around the country Wednesday morning after President Thein Sein issued an amnesty for 6,359 prisoners a day earlier.

Myanmar releases dissidents, keeps many locked up

Aye Aye Win The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 7:30am

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar freed an outspoken critic and a major ethnic rebel as it began releasing 6,300 convicts Wednesday in its latest liberalizing move, but it kept several political detainees behind bars, dampening hopes for a broader amnesty.

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Rape victim sues Utah County, jail over attack

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 2:23pm

PROVO -- A rape victim sued Utah County, its sheriff's office and two companies associated with a jail work-release program, claiming they failed to properly supervise an inmate who attacked her on the Provo River Trail.

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Allgier says no plans to marry mixed-race woman

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Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 1:30pm

ALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah inmate accused of killing a prison guard disputes reports that he planned to marry a mixed-race woman and that he isn’t a white supremacist.

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Inmate who refused to ID himself set for release

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Last updated Monday, August 1, 2011 - 4:09pm

PROVO -- An inmate who baffled authorities for weeks by refusing to identify himself is set to be released from jail.

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FILE - This June 25, 2007 file photo shows Curtis Allgier, being taken away after an escape attempt in Salt Lake City. A woman set to marry Allgier, facing a capital murder charge in the killing of a prison guard says he is sweet and loving, "a really kindhearted good person." Erica Herrera told ABC News 4 she'll marry Allgier on Aug. 8 at the Salt Lake County Jail. Allgier faces the death penalty if convicted of killing prison guard Stephen Anderson, who was shot with his own gun while escorting Allgier to a medical facility. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

Accused killer of Utah prison guard plans to marry

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Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 1:55pm

DRAPER -- The accused killer of a Utah prison guard who is also a white supremacist plans to marry a mixed-race woman in state prison next month.

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In this photo provided byUtah County Sheriff's Office, shows a roughly 71-year-old man with blue eyes and gray hair but no name. Booked into the Utah County Jail as John Doe after being arrested for trespassing in a parking garage, authorities say his true identity remains a mystery. (AP Photo/Utah County Sheriff's Office)

Mystery Utah inmate refuses to reveal name

Brian Skoloff The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:48pm

PROVO -- A mystery man believed to be his 70s has been locked up in a Utah jail for more than three weeks and has baffled investigators because he refuses to reveal his identity or provide any details about his life.

The graying, disheveled man with blue eyes and a scruffy face was booked into the Utah County Jail as "John Doe" after being arrested for trespassing in the Provo Police Department parking garage.

Since then, investigators have been publicizing his mug shot and reaching out to the media and public to figure out who he is. About 100 tips have led nowhere.

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Sex-crimes defendant gets OK to view child porn in jail

Adam Lynn The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)

Last updated Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 12:01pm

TACOMA, Wash. -- A Washington state man accused of child sex crimes is being allowed to view child pornography in the Pierce County Jail in preparation for his upcoming trial.

Sheriff Paul Pastor and Prosecuting Attorney Mark Lindquist don't like it, but the Washington State Supreme Court in 2007 ruled that defense attorneys are entitled to copies of child pornography that prosecutors plan to use as evidence against criminal defendants.

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This image provided by the Utah Department of Corrections shows William Michael Raine, 49, who tells the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole now he remembers everything about a 1986 killing. Until now, Raine said he was an alcoholic who blacked out and could remember nothing of 43-year-old Vivian Morse's death. Raine now says he picked Morse up from a Salt Lake City bar in 1986, drove up Emigration Canyon, then raped Morse and bludgeoned her to death with a crowbar.(AP Photo/Utah Department of Corrections)

Convicted killer now says he recalls 1986 incident

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Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 3:03pm

DRAPER -- A Utah prison inmate convicted of killing a transient woman in a Salt Lake City canyon 25 years ago said Tuesday he now remembers the details of the incident but cannot explain his actions.

During a hearing before a parole board member, William Michael Raine said he remembers taking Vivian Morse, 43, to Emigration Canyon on June 30, 1986, after meeting her at a bar. Once in the canyon that is just east of Salt Lake City, he raped her and beat her to death with a crowbar.

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Inmate charged with Utah woman's '86 slaying

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Last updated Friday, June 24, 2011 - 1:49pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Prosecutors have filed a murder charge in connection with the death of 20-year-old Salt Lake City woman whose body was found in the hills above a city park in 1986.

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Utah Supreme Court to hear appeal on inmate death

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 6, 2011 - 9:30am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of an inmate appealing his death sentence in the killing of a fellow prisoner.

Troy Michael Kell was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 fatal stabbing of Lonnie Blackmon at the Central Utah Correctional Facility. Authorities say Kell is a white supremacist who had been involved in race-related altercations with several black inmates, including Blackmon. The murder was captured on videotape.

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