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LOS ANGELES -- False testimony sent farmworker Vicente Benevides to death row. Now he has filed a federal lawsuit against officials who imprisoned him. "I continue suffering from the injustice I lived ...

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LAS VEGAS -- A twice-convicted murderer who had repeatedly said he wanted to die by lethal injection was found dead in his death-row prison cell from an apparent hanging, officials said Saturday.