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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Michael W. Ryan</title>
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		<title>Victim&#8217;s sister hopes to make death penalty personal for senators</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Finn, who [...]]]></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 compound [...]]]></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) - 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 trial was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture and murder tied to survivalist group stun a Nebraska farming community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 1985 09:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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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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