16 m. ago London hospital gene therapy breakthrough gives boy with ‘death sentence’ disease a normal life

Eisa Hussein took part in a clinical trial testing the new gene therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital

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7 h. ago Boy with ‘death sentence’ disease living a normal life after breakthrough gene therapy

Four-year-old Eisa can now play football and go to school – things his family feared he may never do

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9 h. ago Breakthrough gene therapy gives boy with ‘death sentence’ disease a normal life

Eisa Hussein took part in a clinical trial testing the new gene therapy.

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9 h. ago 'My son has death sentence disease that should've killed him before 2nd birthday'

Eisa Hussain was born with a condition meaning his body could not fight off infections and he was expected to die before the age of two - until pioneering gene therapy saved him

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9 h. ago Boy, 4, given 'death sentence' from rare disease receives incredible breakthrough

Eisa Hussain was given a devastating diagnosis after his dad says he "didn't seem right"

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5 d. ago Woman killed man in unprovoked attack after asking to be sent back to hospital

Christina Howell stabbed Hubert Brown to death in a racist and unprovoked attack, the sentencing judge said.

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6 d. ago Prosecutors can seek death penalty for Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger despite autism diagnosis, judge rules

Kohberger is accused of murdering four Idaho college students in 2022

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6 d. ago EFL footballer Lucas Akins jailed for causing death of cyclist after crashing Mercedes

EFL footballer Lucas Akins has been handed a prison sentence following a hearing at Leeds Crown Court following the death of a cyclist in March 2022

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6 d. ago Man who strangled partner to death and said it was 'sex gone wrong' to be sentenced

Alcwyn Thomas killed Victoria 'Vicki' Thomas after drinking heavily and taking cocaine but had denied murder saying the pair regularly enjoyed adventurous intercourse including strangulation.

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7 d. ago Alabama to execute man who asked for his death sentence to stop ‘wasting everybody’s time’

The prisoner will join approximately one in ten people on death row in America who ask for their own executions

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7 d. ago Sarah Ferguson says her double cancer diagnoses felt 'like a death sentence'

In conversation with The Times, the Duchess of York, 65, likened her health battles to a 'bomb going off in my life'.

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7 d. ago Sarah Ferguson says cancer diagnoses felt ‘like a death sentence’

Duchess of York was diagnosed with skin cancer six months after breast cancer treatment

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9 d. ago 'I was threatened with electric shock therapy as a little boy for wearing a dress

Samantha Wolsey was just six years old when she walked downstairs to show off her dress to her dad, just like her sisters, but the little boy was taken straight to a psychiatrist

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1 week ago Death row inmates sue to stop Trump from sending them to prison that housed Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber

Attorney says Trump administration is ‘just assuming they are the worst of the worst by virtue of their death sentences’

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1 week ago Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

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2 w. ago Coleen Campbell hauled from cell over hammer attack after ex

Coleen Campbell is currently serving a 13 year sentence for manslaughter in connection with the death of her ex-husband Thomas Campbell, but has been back in court for a hammer attack

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2 w. ago Coleen Campbell battered woman in love triangle street attack days before helping kill her ex

Campbell is currently serving a 13 year sentence for manslaughter in connection with the death of her ex-husband

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2 w. ago Killer who stabbed neighbour 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a convicted killer, who was serving a life sentence after stabbing his elderly female neighbour to death in 2006.

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2 w. ago Convicted killer John Mansfield 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of John Mansfield, who was serving a life sentence for murder at HMP Whitemoor after stabbing his neighbour to death in 2006

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2 w. ago A former Colorado sheriff's deputy is to be sentenced in the death of Christian Glass

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in emotional distress is set to be sentenced

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