10 h. ago Alabama execution remains on hold to evaluate whether man is competent

The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not proceed next week

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28 h. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

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47 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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47 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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47 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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4 d. 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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6 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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9 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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 34 men who ended up on Death Row have one thing in common – they all went to same school

Michael Bell is the latest Florida inmate to be executed - the convicted murderer was one of 34 former students of the notorious Dozier School for Boys known for systematic abuse

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4 w. ago Nike fans are just learning creepy meaning behind 'Just Do It' slogan after 37 years

One of the world's most successful and most famous marketing slogans, Nike's 'Just Do It' is hiding a much more sinister past with ties to a convicted Death Row murderer

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4 w. ago ‘Our silence didn’t protect him’: daughter pleads for father on death row in Iran

Arrested in 2023 after helping those injured during Women, Life, Freedom protests, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been subjected to torture and a forced confession, say family and campaignersIn late October 2022, as protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody swept across Iran, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, a father of three, was racing through alleyways in the city of Bukan, in western Iran, carrying medical supplies to secret clinics where doctors treated injured demonstrators in defiance of the state.Many of the wounded were too afraid to seek hospital care after reports of secret police patrolling wards, interrogating patients and detaining injured protesters. By helping, Babamiri, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable farmer, did not see himself as a revolutionary but simply as someone doing what was right, says his daughter, Zhino. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Wallabies learn lessons of 2013 Lions series in bid to avoid first Test slip

Australia fly half Kurtley Beale slipped at an inopportune moment during the 2013 Lions first Test, and the Wallabies are keen to avoid a repeat

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4 w. ago Victim’s family refuses to pardon Indian nurse on death row in Yemen: ‘Blood cannot be bought’

Brother of victim denounces moves to delay execution of Nimisha Priya

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4 w. ago The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olson review – surviving an all

The extraordinary story of the women who fought to bring their Nazi persecutors to justiceShortly after her release from Ravensbrück in 1945, Comtesse Germaine de Renty attended a dinner party in Paris with old friends. One guest complimented her on how well she was looking, concluding that “life in Ravensbrück was not nearly as terrible as we’ve been told”. De Renty stared at the woman for a moment, before explaining icily that a typical day in the camp began by stepping over the corpses of friends who had died in the night. They would probably have no eyes, she added, since the rats had already eaten them. And with that, the comtesse stood up and swept out.Ravensbrück always had a credibility issue, explains Lynne Olson in this consistently thoughtful book. The camp, although only 50 miles north of Berlin, had been liberated late, which gave the SS plenty of time to burn incriminating records. There was limited visual evidence, too, since no cameramen accompanied the Soviet army w...

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last month Killer inmates on America's harshest death row get rare privileges and incredible new perk

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct human contact

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last month America's harshest death row grants killer inmates incredible new perk

Rodolfo 'Rudy' Alvarez Medrano, 45, a Texas death row inmate, is among a select group of about a dozen prisoners chosen for a groundbreaking program.

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