20 h. ago Furious final words of death row's oldest inmate as he is executed for murdering his estranged wife and sons

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

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22 h. ago Death row inmate executed 33 years after killing family but claims innocence in final words

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders in 1989

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22 h. ago Death row fiend executed with chilling last 4 words 33 years after killing family

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders in 1989

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58 h. ago Death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed in South Carolina

The inmate appears to want to die himself after his best friend was executed in January

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59 h. ago South Carolina death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself

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2 d. ago Death row inmate Matthew Lee Johnson's last words as he's executed for setting gran on fire

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Matthew Lee Johnson, who set shop assistant Nancy Harris on fire during a robbery in Dallas, Texas, addressed the victim's relatives before he was executed in prison

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3 d. ago Witness to death row execution gives chilling account of inmate's final moments

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing a police officer, the inmate was given a lethal injection

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3 d. ago Death Row inmate's heartbreaking final six words before police killer died by lethal injection

Benjamin Ritchie was put to death via lethal injection around 6am UK time after more than 20 years on death row after he was convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer

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4 d. ago Death row inmate who shot dead cop set for lethal injection 'before the hour of sunrise'

A man is set to receive a lethal injection over 20 years after his crime in a so-called 'sunrise execution' – just the second over many years to take place in the area

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7 d. ago South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13

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1 week ago Lawmakers seek investigation into South Carolina's firing squad execution

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month

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1 week ago Killer executed by firing squad died in ‘excruciating conscious pain’ after bullet missed heart, report says

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial method

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2 w. ago Killer executed by firing squad died in ‘excruciating conscious pain’ after bullet missed his heart, report says

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial method

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2 w. ago 5 botched Death Row executions with one so bad staff had '13 years of therapy'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: This week a Death Row inmate took four minutes to die after a firing squad failed to shoot him properly. But it was far from a one-off, as Daily Star shows with this grisly report

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2 w. ago Firing squad 'botched' death row execution as bullets all missed inmate's heart

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed on April 11 by firing squad. An autopsy has shown that Mahdi 'suffered' more than the estimated 10-15 second window he was supposed to

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2 w. ago Entire US firing squad 'botches' execution leaving death row inmate to die slowly

An autopsy has revealed that South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi 'suffered' longer than the 10-15 second window he was supposed to after being shot in the heart by a firing squad

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2 w. ago Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution

Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged sufferingA South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used in the modern death penalty era. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart

A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute

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2 w. ago Death row inmate suffered 'excruciating' execution after making last meal 'mistake'

Wesley Ira Purkey, who had been on death row since 2004, was found guilty of raping and murdering 16-year-old Jennifer Long back in 1998.

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2 w. ago Dan Walker recalls terror at meeting death row inmate who knew him

Dan Walker has opened up on how filming his new death row series impacted him, revealing that an inmate knew who he was before they met.

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