5 h. ago Death row inmate apologizes for rape and murder of college student before being executed in Tennessee

Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, died by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, 20.

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10 h. ago Serial rapist who murdered college student in 1988 executed in Tennessee

A spiritual adviser prayed with him in the execution chamber

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2 w. ago Death row inmate writhed in agony for almost an hour in botched execution

Clayton Lockett was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping of 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman

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2 w. ago Death row inmate writhed in agony for almost an hour in 'tortured to death' execution

Clayton Lockett was subjected to a botched execution after he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping

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2 w. ago Louisiana man who spent 30 years on death row freed on bail after conviction overturned

A Louisiana death row inmate spent 30 years behind bars before his conviction was overturned allowing him to walk free on bail.

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2 w. ago Death row inmate released on bail after nearly 30 years in prison

Jimmie Duncan was convicted of murdering his then-girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter in 1998

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2 w. ago Utah death row inmate with dementia dies while awaiting firing squad

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent natural causes

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2 w. ago Louisiana death row inmate released on bail after decades behind bars

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row is out on bail

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2 w. ago Death row inmate burst into flames and smoke came from hood in horror execution

John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama after killing a pawnbroker, and was eventually strapped into an electric chair chillingly dubbed "Yellow Mama"

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2 w. ago Death row inmate burst into flames and took 14 minutes to die in horror execution

John Louis Evans III was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar

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3 w. ago Death row inmate who killed his boss in brutal attack set for lethal injection in Florida’s 17th execution this year

The highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014

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3 w. ago Death row inmate found unconscious hours after life spared from lethal injection

Death-row inmate Termane Wood, 45, who was convicted for the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old during a botched robbery in 2002, was found unconscious in his cell after being reprieved

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3 w. ago Death row inmate has life spared but then is found unresponsive in his cell

Tremane Wood was hours away from being executed by lethal injection when he was given a reprieve by governor Kevin Stitt - but was later found unconscious in his cell

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3 w. ago Death row inmate found unresponsive in his cell hours after his life was spared in last

Death row inmate Tremane Wood, 46, was discovered unresponsive in his cell just hours after learning he was granted a last-minute reprieve from execution.

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4 w. ago Oklahoma death row inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Oklahoma inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Death row inmate’s life spared minutes before scheduled execution

Wood was sentenced to die for his role in the stabbing death of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker

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4 w. ago Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks governor for life in prison instead

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date

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