Crime went down three years in a row, and the murder rate in 1996 was the lowest for 21 years.

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Vincent Harty, 39, of Wakering Avenue, Shoeburyness, Essex, and Peter Smith, 38, of Furnace Row, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, deny murder.

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Duncan was convicted of capital murder, and has spent the last 10 years on death row.

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In a statement read out by his lawyer to the court on Monday, Odendaal claimed he had a row with his wife on the night of the murder.

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Mamie Brown and her husband, Joseph Green Brown, who was on Florida's death row for 13 years before his convictions on rape and murder were overturned in 1986, had been fixtures at family functions since they'd moved to Charlotte in 2007.

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The newspaper reports that investigators are examining whether former Officer David Mack conspired with Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight to arrange the contract murder of the 24-year-old rapper whose real name was Christopher Wallace.

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He said the prosecution did not believe it was a planned murder, but "when he was there he lost his temper" and attacked her during a row.

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