10 h. ago Death Row inmate's final meal after slaughtering four members of same family

Twisted killer Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, has been executed more than 30 years after the brutal murders of four members of the same family in which he tied them up and tortured them

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68 h. ago Death Row inmate's last words and simple final meal after killing student, 20

Charles Crawford asked for a simple American meal before he was executed after spending over 30 years on death row for the rape and murder of Kristy Ray

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3 d. ago Death Row inmate's last words after sex workers found dumped in pond

Death Row inmate Samuel Lee Smithers has been executed for the 1996 killings of sex workers Christy Cowan and Denise Roach who he murdered and dumped a nearby pond

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3 d. ago Shock number of executions to take place this week in busiest month for 15 years

Four death row inmates are set to be executed in the US this week in what is the busiest month for the death penalty in nearly 15 years

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1 week ago Death row inmates' horror botched executions from blood spurting to catching fire

The US made history in August as it executed its first-ever prisoner in 15 years by firing squad in what was only the fourth time the method has been used since the death penalty was resumed in the country

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2 w. ago 'I survived botched death row execution and there's one face I'll never forget'

After being stabbed several times with needles about to administer a lethal injection, death row inmate Thomas Creech will never forget this one moment

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2 w. ago 'I survived disaster death row execution and one moment was the worst'

Thomas Creech, 75, is Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate and was due to be executed last year

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2 w. ago Tennessee court sets execution date for the state's only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row

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2 w. ago Death Row inmate who killed couple during a robbery shares final blunt statement

Jones was a new employee at a Miami business owned by Matilda and Jacob Nestor in December 1990 when he stabbed the woman in the neck and her husband in the chest

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3 w. ago Death Row inmate's last words after performing 'exorcism' on 'possessed' baby

Blaine Milam, 35, was given a lethal injection after being sentenced to death for the murder of 13-month-old Amora Carson at his trailer in Rusk County in East Texas in 2008

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