47 h. ago Death row inmate's last meal caused so much fury prisoners now can't pick final food

Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for kidnapping and killing James Byrd Jr, but not before he ordered a whopper of a final meal including two chicken steaks, a cheeseburger and a pound of ice cream

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51 h. ago The death row inmate's last meal that sparked such fury prisoners are no longer allowed to choose what they eat before execution

White supremacist Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 after he was convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck.

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5 d. ago Exonerated US death row inmate turned campaigner dies in Irish house fire

Sunny Jacobs died following the blaze at the Sunny Healing Centre in rural Co Galway.

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6 d. ago Trump launches investigation into Biden’s use of autopen to pardon family and inmates

An invetigation will focus on pardons granted to Biden family members and inmates on death row

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9 d. ago South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection amid concerns about firing squad

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by firing squad

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1 week ago Man who becomes 'best friends' with death row killers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Rev. Jeff Hood, who has witnessed the last moments of nine death row inmates, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with condemned men in the United States

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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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3 w. 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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