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		<title>Nebraska Attorney General Seeks Execution Date for Cult Leader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26293" title="Nebraska Attorney General Seeks Execution Date for Cult Leader"><img src="http://rnbpull.99streets.netdna-cdn.com/graphicspics/michael_w_ryan.jpg" alt="Michael W. Ryan" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Michael W. Ryan"></a> The Nebraska attorney general's office has asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to schedule an execution date for former cult leader <a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/category/michael-w-ryan" title="Michael Ryan">Michael Ryan</a>, who was condemned for the torture and slaying of a man in 1985 at Ryan's compound near Rulo. <br /><br />Ryan's execution would be the first in Nebraska since 1997 and its first by lethal injection. ]]></description>
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		<title>Victim&#8217;s sister hopes to make death penalty personal for senators</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["If there's anyone that should die of the death penalty, it would be Michael Ryan," Kelle said, "but I don't feel that we have the right to say who should live or die."]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rejects Appeal Of Former Cult Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LINCOLN, Neb. &#8212; An appeal by one-time cult leader Michael Ryan in a 1985 torture-slaying on a farm near Rulo was rejected Friday by a federal appeals court. In doing so, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld and earlier ruling by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Ryan claimed that Richardson County District Judge Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge lifts Ryan&#8217;s stay of execution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious cult murderer Michael W. Ryan saw the eight-year-long stay on his execution lifted this week by a federal judge who called Ryan&#8217;s crime &#8220;sickening.&#8221; U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf, in a 53-page order Thursday, said Ryan received a fair trial and sentence for the 1985 torture-murder of James Thimm at a religious cult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says death row inmate competent for trial, appeals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP, Dec. 18, 2002 http://www.omaha.com/ LINCOLN (AP) &#8211; A federal magistrate has ruled that Michael W. Ryan, who is on Nebraska&#8217;s death row for a torture murder, was mentally competent to stand trial and make appeals in the case. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Piester also ruled the former religious cult leader&#8217;s right to a fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture and murder tied to survivalist group stun a Nebraska farming community</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviews with the authorities, relatives of the Rulo farm's residents and neighbors create a picture of weapon stockpiles, religious fanaticism and anti-Government sentiment. The farm's recent residents have been linked by the authorities and family members to an anti-Semitic, white supremacist religious movement, the Ministry of Christ Church, which is called Identity after its publication, and to an allied group, the radically antitax, anti-Government Posse Comitatus.]]></description>
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