5 h. ago Changing US law keeps victims’ families – and people on death row – waiting decades for closure

Marcia Fulton has waited 37 years for David Wood to be executed for her daughter’s murder, but lawyers who believe he’s innocent keep filing appealsTwo months ago, Marcia Fulton received a knock on her door in El Paso, Texas, from lawyers for David Wood – a name she knows all too well. Wood is facing execution on 13 March for the 1987 murder of Fulton’s teenage daughter, Desiree Wheatley, along with five other girls and young women.“I promised Desi at her gravesite that I would find out who did this and make them pay,” Fulton told Wood’s lawyers that afternoon. Now, she was making plans to attend the execution. “I’ll feel like it’s a promise I kept to her.” Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method

Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violatedA man scheduled to become the first person executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana is challenging the method in court, arguing it violates his religious beliefs.A federal judge will decide whether executing Jessie Hoffman Jr by nitrogen hypoxia violates his constitutional right to practice his religion, which includes Buddhist breathing and meditation exercises that would be impeded by the gas during the capital punishment. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Chilling last words of death row inmate first to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, became the first US death row inmate in 15 years to be executed by firing squad when he was shot by three prison guards - his final words have now been revealed

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49 h. ago Death row inmate's chilling message and kind gesture before death by firing squad

Brad Sigmon bludgeoned his then-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat in a crazed act of violence 23 years ago, although is believed to have converted to Christianity in more recent years

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53 h. ago 'Desert Killer' makes last ditch 'I'm innocent' declaration as Death Row execution nears

David Leonard Wood was convicted of murdering six girls and women in 1987 and yet, he is fighting to stop his upcoming execution on March 13 saying all the evidence was circumstantial

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54 h. ago Death row killer executed by firing squad in US for first time in 15 years

Brad Sigmon chose how he wanted to die after also being offered the electric chair and lethal injection.

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54 h. ago Final words of first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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57 h. ago Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method

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62 h. ago Death row inmate is executed by firing squad after choosing how he would die

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given special permission to pick the manner of his execution

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64 h. ago Death Row baseball bat killer executed by firing squad as last meal revealed

Brad Sigmon has been executed by firing squad in Columbia, after admitting to the brutal double murder of his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2002

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64 h. ago South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in US in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in front of his heart and three employee volunteers shot him

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65 h. ago My brother is being executed by firing squad any minute now. Our mom still doesn't know

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm EST on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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66 h. ago My brother is dying tonight. Our mom doesn't know... I won't tell her when the bullet is fired

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm EST on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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3 d. ago Idaho desperately wants to build a facility to execute by firing squad. But nobody wants the contract

Idaho is looking to renovate its death row to accommodate firing squad executions, but contractors are shying away from helping build the facility, Michelle Del Rey writes

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3 d. ago Who is Brad Sigmon? The South Carolina death row inmate set for first U.S. firing squad execution in 15 years

Death row inmate convicted of the double murder of David and Gladys Larke has chosen to die by firing squad over fears the electric chair would ‘burn and cook him alive’

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3 d. ago South Carolina moves ahead with ‘cruel’ firing squad execution despite outcry

Brad Sigmon, 67, will be first executed by gunfire in US in 15 years as supporters call for clemencyThe US will conduct its first execution by firing squad in 15 years on Friday in South Carolina, despite widespread concerns about the safety and cruelty of this method and growing calls for clemency.Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be shot to death by three South Carolina prison employees, part of a series of rapid executions the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives capital punishment. After a 13-year-pause in killings, due to limited supplies to carry out executions, the state now directs men on death row to choose their method of death – electric chair, lethal injection or firing squad. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Desperate final plea of death row inmate Brad Sigmon before he's shot dead in firing squad TONIGHT

Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die the evening of March 7 for the brutal baseball bat beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents David and Gladys Larke in 2001.

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3 d. ago Wife saved from death row after Brit prof found she was 'sex shamed' in murder trial

Brenda Andrew was the only woman on death row in Oklahoma for the death of her estranged husband, Rob Andrew, who was shot to death in 2001 - almost 25 years later she can finally appeal

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4 d. ago After woman on death row, two more Indian nationals executed in UAE

As many as 26 Indians facing death sentence in UAE

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5 d. ago I saw the last firing squad execution... the violent twitching and stench of bleach will haunt me forever: As it happens again 15 years on, a chilling eyewitness account

As he sat strapped tight to a chair with a black hood placed over his head, it was difficult to tell whether Ronnie Lee Gardner was alive or dead when four bullets ripped into his chest...

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