9 h. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby executed

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection nearly two decades after he shot Amber Dawn Matthews in the head as she shielded her friends newborn baby

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11 h. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

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23 h. ago Florida man faces execution for killing girl, 8, and her grandmother

Edward James scheduled to receive lethal injection under death warrant signed in February by Ron DeSantisA Florida man who killed an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs is set to be executed Thursday.Edward James, 63, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection starting at 6pm at Florida state prison outside Starke under a death warrant signed in February by Governor Ron DeSantis. Barring a last-minute reprieve, the execution is to be the second this year in Florida, which is planning a third in April. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Condemned killer's vile final act before execution by lethal injection

Aaron Gunches kidnapped and shot a man dead in the desert near Pheonix in 2007. He has became the second prisoner to be executed across the United States this week.

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29 h. ago Death Row killer who begged for lethal injection executed as final meal and last words revealed

Aaron Brian Gunches has spent the last 10 years trying to get an execution date, saying that he wanted it to move forward 'so that justice may be lawfully served and give closure'

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6 d. ago ‘I deserve death,’ an Alabama murderer told a judge. Now he’s getting his wish

‘I’m tired. I want to complete my sentence,’ James Osgood said

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2 w. ago How South Carolina's execution of a condemned killer by firing squad will unfold

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on Friday

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2 w. ago Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years

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