12 h. ago A death row inmate says judges are ruled by Satan as he tries to avoid execution

A judge is considering whether delusional beliefs about the legal system are enough to prevent a South Carolina prisoner from being executed

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52 h. ago Chestburster alien transformation possible from radioactive shrimp, says Sen John Kennedy

US senator John Kennedy has raised some eyebrows after he said that eating radioactive prawns could make you look like an absurd sci-fi 'chest-bursting' alien from the 70s

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3 d. ago Scotland remains drugs death capital of Europe for the seventh year in a row

There were 1,017 drug misuse deaths in Scotland last year, new figures have shown.

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5 d. ago British woman, 34, stabbed to death ‘by female attacker in love triangle row’ in Cambodia

Jessica Cariad Hopkins, 34, from Harpenden, found with throat slit in park close to capital Phnom Penh

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5 d. ago Brit stabbed to death in 'deadly love triangle row' after Cambodian holiday fling

Jessica Hopkins had fallen in love with a man while on holiday in the Cambodian capital – but with a third person involved, she ultimately lost out and paid with her life

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7 d. ago Death Row man orders hefty last meal before execution as his 'legs twitched'

Curtis Windom told a friend 'you're gonna read about me' before buying a gun and killing a man who allegedly owed him $2,000, his girlfriend and her mother in a bloodthirsty rampage

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8 d. ago Triple murderer executed on death row more than 30 years after killings

Curtis Windom was executed by lethal injection at a prison in Florida more than 30 years after he murdered his girlfriend, her mother and a man who he claimed owed him money

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8 d. ago Florida monster who killed lover, her mother, and rival executed after decades on death row

Curtis Windom, 59, was sentenced to die for the Nov. 7, 1992, killings of girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee in the Orlando area

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8 d. ago Family of woman murdered 33 years ago finally see justice as thug killed on death row

Curtis Windom murdered his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 (£1,500 today) and was sentenced to die in November 1992 - almost 33 years ago

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8 d. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner 'could be released in a fornight'

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Christian Brueckner could be back on the streets in weeks, it has been claimed in a bid to 'avoid vigilantes and media attention'

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1 week ago Child killer on Death Row took his own life 'saving taxpayers a lot of money'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A Death Row man has taken his own life after he killed a 13-year-old in 2008 by using a telephone chord in a US motel room, officials say

Economics

1 week ago Chilling final words from oldest death row inmate seconds before execution

Oscar Frankline Smith, 75, was killed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 22. He had been sentenced to death in July 1990 - after a jury found him guilty of the brutal murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons.

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1 week ago Haunting final words of death row’s oldest inmate seconds before his execution

Tennessee’s oldest death row inmate, Oscar Franklin Smit,h brutally murdered his wife and her children over thirty years ago. He was executed this year and had some haunting last words

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2 w. ago Mystery as death row killer manages to commit suicide while awaiting his execution

Florida death row inmate Matthew Caylor, who was awaiting execution for the horrific murder and rape of a 13-year-old girl, has died by suicide in prison.

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2 w. ago Gran's chilling final wish as she waits to be executed by firing squad in Bali

Another British woman has been on death row in Bali for 12 years after being caught trying to smuggle 1.6million worth of cocaine into Indonesia

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2 w. ago Brit gran's horrifying last wish after 12 years on death row as she awaits firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, a grandmother from the UK, has been on death row in Bali for 12 years after she was caught trying to smuggle 2 million worth of cocaine into Indonesia

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2 w. ago Pressure grows on Tanzania to free victim of domestic violence who has been on death row for 13 years

Lemi Limbu, who was convicted of murdering her daughter, has severe intellectual disabilities and ‘absolutely should not be in prison’, say campaignersPressure is mounting on the Tanzanian government to release a woman with severe intellectual disabilities who has been in prison awaiting execution for 13 years.Lemi Limbu, who is now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015. A survivor of brutal and repeated sexual and domestic violence, she has the developmental age of a child. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kayle Bates who kidnapped and killed office worker is executed

Kayle Bates has been on death row for more than four decades - and was finally given a fatal injection on Tuesday, becoming Florida's record 10th execution this year

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2 w. ago The GHOST that walks on Death Row: US prisoner jailed for murder he didn't commit reveals inmates saw a SPIRIT 'walk down the hallway' whenever there was an execution

In the fragile space between life and death, Florida prison inmates sit in a damp jail cell waiting to learn their fate. 

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3 w. 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

Politics