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Without comment, the high court let stand a decision from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Stemple’s right to a fair trial was not violated by the admission of an incriminating taped interview with Tulsa police before he was officially under arrest.

Stemple, now 46, and an accomplice beat Stemple’s wife — Trisha, who was 30 — with a baseball bat and then ran her over several times with a pickup on U.S. 75 outside of Tulsa.

Pruitt asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set an execution date in 60 days or the earliest date the court deems fit.

“Timothy Shaun Stemple has exhausted all of his appeals in a court of law,” Pruitt said. “After

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Enlarge Final days of New Hampshire GOP Primary 2012 gallery (15 photos)

MANCHESTER, N.H. Although the Republican presidential candidates seemed tense and on the defense at times over the past few days, the overall mood in New Hampshire has been one of excitement ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary.

On highway overpasses and at busy intersections, signs supporting each of the candidates are waving in the wind.

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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann told a small group of supporters Tuesday night that she’s staying in the presidential race as the only true conservative who can defeat the sitting president, despite a bleak showing in the Iowa caucuses.

The Minnesota congresswoman was running in last place among six candidates as returns came in from the nation’s first Republican presidential nominating contest.

“I believe that I am that true conservative who can and who will defeat Barack Obama in 2012,” she said. “What we need is a fearless conservative, one with no compromises on their record on spending on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending America, on standing with our ally Israel.”

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Gary Dobson and David Norris, the two men convicted of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, will be sentenced today.

The pair, who were 17 and 16 at the time of the murder, will receive a sentence that takes into account as a starting point the fact that they were juveniles at the time of the fatal stabbing.

But Mr Justice Treacy, the trial judge, will also take aggravating factors into account: specifically that the murder was racist, and also that the pair realised one of their group might use a knife.

Had they committed the crime in the last year, Dobson and Norris would expect to receive much tougher sentences, with minimum terms of 25 years for a racially aggravated knife murder.

But under the law at the time of the Lawrence murder, juveniles received lesser sentences for such crimes.

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office wants former Jacksonville Port Authority Chairman Tony Nelson to spend 10 to 12½ years in prison.

Prosecutors also have asked the court to finalize the seizure of $143,500 from Nelson, the money they say he took as a bribe.

Nelson and Lance Young — who was convicted of bribing Nelson — were scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday and today. U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan postponed the hearing until next month to give himself time to review both sides’ arguments.

In May, Nelson was found guilty of multiple counts of bribery, money laundering, mail fraud and one count each of conspiracy and lying to the FBI.

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