2 h. ago Death row prisoner gauges out both his own eyes to delay execution

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Andre Thomas was sentenced to death in 2005, but his execution date was postponed due to his mental state.

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2 h. ago Death row killer gouged out own eyes and ate them after killing wife and kids

Andre Thomas was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of his wife Laura Christine Boren, his four-year-old son and Boren's 13-month-old daughter in Texas

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2 h. ago Death row prisoner cuts out wife and kids' hearts then gouges out and eats his own eyes

The man on death row was found in his cell covered in blood after he gouged out both of his eyes in a bid to avoid execution after he believed God told him to carry out a triple murder

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55 h. ago Death of Prince William's businessman pal who 'collapsed after swallowing a bee' sparks a £3billion inheritance row

Sunjay Kapur, 53, collapsed in front of horrified teammates during the game at Guards Polo Club in Windsor.

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4 d. ago The Tennessee execution that ‘went horribly wrong’: how Byron Black’s killing unfolded

Witnesses say disabled death-row man was in distress upon gurney, while lawyer calls execution ‘100% botched’For attorney Kelley Henry, the visible blood was the first indication that the execution of her client was going wrong.At 10.15am on Tuesday inside the Riverbend maximum security prison in Nashville, the longtime Tennessee death row lawyer watched as staff attempted to place an IV into the right arm of Byron Black. Black was locked on to a gurney with crisscrossing black straps over his chest, stomach and legs, and Henry saw blood ooze from the injection site. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dentist slowly killed wife by poisoning smoothies and tried to recruit daughter to cover tracks

Colorado dentist James Craig has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of fatally poisoning his wife Angela

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6 d. ago Husband 'knew wife was poisoning him' a year before she killed three with toxic mushroom lunch

An Australian woman was convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms. Her husband told a court he had suspected his wife of trying to kill him previously

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6 d. ago Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before she killed 3 relatives with toxic mushrooms

An Australian court has heard a husband suspected his wife of poisoning him over a year before she murdered three of his relatives with toxic mushrooms

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6 d. ago Driver, 81, dies and kills pedestrian couple after accidentally pressing accelerator instead of brake pedal to take powerful Audi from 25mph to 55mph in just five seconds, inquest hears

Humphrey Pickering, 81, mistakenly 'floored' the Audi A8, which killed Reverend Stephen Burch and his wife, Kathy, both 65.

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7 d. ago Dad's desperate phone call moments before explosion kills him and his daughters

Dylan Danielson, 32, took his two daughters Hayven, 12, and Fayeah, eight, to a factory where he worked before a huge explosion tragically killed them all - a tagic phone call he made to his wife has now been detailed

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7 d. ago Son battered frail father, 78, to death with dumbbell in row over £40

Aston Lambert was found guilty of murdering his father by a jury at Southwark Crown Court

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7 d. ago British dad 'killed by Russian drone' after wife begged him not to go to Ukraine

Alan Robert Williams, 35, from Merseyside, went to Ukraine to volunteer in the army after trying to take his own life, and his wife has now been told he has been killed by a Russian drone

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8 d. ago I am one of the last of the Abuelas – the grandmothers still searching for Argentina’s ‘disappeared’. I’m 87, but I will never give up

Nearly 50 years ago, my son and his wife were tortured and killed and their baby was taken by the military regime. Two decades later, I found her – but hundreds of grandchildren are still missingArgentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship tortured, killed and “disappeared” an estimated 30,000 people – political opponents, students, artists, union leaders: anyone it deemed a threat. Hundreds of babies were also taken, either imprisoned with their parents, or given to military families. The Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have fought for almost 50 years to find these grandchildren. Buscarita Roa is one of two surviving active members.As Argentina’s military sank its claws into our country, our young people, the ones with ideas, started disappearing. They were taken from the streets, from their homes, from work. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Death row inmate screams out in pain during execution after state refused to remove heart device

Byron Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection for the deaths of Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, Latoya, nine, and Lakeisha, six, on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago Child murderer's five last words after injection on death row amid defibrillator row

Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal injection at a jail in Nashville, Tennessee

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8 d. ago Death row inmates challenge new Arkansas law allowing executions by nitrogen gas

Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas

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8 d. ago Wife of man convicted in ‘Delphi murders’ speaks out for the first time: ‘My husband’s not a monster’

Kathy Allen opened up in an interview that will be featured on ABC News Studios’ new series “Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge.”

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9 d. ago Man, 72, died after being run over by his wife when she accidentally pressed the accelerator

A man was killed in a 'tragic accident' after his wife accidentally ran over him in a car park, an inquest heard.

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9 d. ago Grim photo shows nightmarish conditions Bryan Kohberger faces after being moved to notorious J

The quadruple killer, 30, was moved to long-term isolation in a notoriously restrictive block of the Idaho prison where he will spend the rest of his life.

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3 w. ago Husband killed wife of 30 years and then flushed her head down toilet

Dempsey Nibbs, was convicted of murdering his partner of 30 years, Judith Nibbs, at the Old Bailey after he flew into a murderous rage at their east London home

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