9 h. 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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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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7 d. 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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8 d. 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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9 d. ago Death row inmate refuses to choose between electric chair and lethal injection

Harold Nichols is scheduled to die in December for raping and murdering a student

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1 week ago Death row inmate has days to make gruesome decision about his own execution

Harold Wayne Nichols, who was sentenced to death in 1990, is due to be executed on December 11 but he has refused to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection

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1 week ago Tennessee death row inmate declines to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection

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2 w. ago Lawyers for Stephen Bryant make final appeal over brain damage to stop South Carolina execution

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are trying to stop his execution later this month

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3 w. ago Death row inmate yells 'I didn't kill anybody' in chilling last words before he's EXECUTED after burning man alive over $200

The 54-year-old was convicted in 1995 for helping to kidnap and burn alive 32-year-old George Huguley.

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