2 h. ago Evil triple murderer Stephen Bryant who scrawled chilling message in his victim’s blood executed by firing squad

A TRIPLE murderer has been executed by firing squad in front of his victims' relatives, two decades after his violent rampage. Stephen Bryant, 44, admitted to killing Willard "TJ" Tietjen, 62, in October 2004, after stopping by his secluded home in Sumter County, claiming to have car trouble. Bryant also murdered two other men -...

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7 h. ago Triple murderer Stephen Bryant's last meal before choosing death by firing squad

Stephen Bryant went on a five day murder spree in rural South Carolina in 2004 and has spent 20 years on death row - on Friday he was executed by firing squad

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12 h. ago Evil triple murderer's opulent last meal before he's shot by firing squad for 55 seconds

Stephen Bryant had pleaded with the governor to commute his sentence but was denied, resulting in his execution in a grisly method as the final details of his life were revealed

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21 h. ago South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state has used gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash against the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, had been sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to two other murders. Bryant’s lawyers had argued in final appeals that the sentencing judge had been unable to consider his brain damage from his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, but South Carolina’s supreme court declined to halt the execution on Monday. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Friends' haunting text messages to fashion designer moments before she was found dead on Hamptons yacht as owner explains why he was naked

Close friends of Martha Nolan-O'Slatarra, 33, sent her some chilling text messages in the hours before she was mysteriously found dead on a yacht in the Hamptons.

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51 h. ago Footage captures moment hitman fires shots at mobster Marc Webley in gangland execution

Grant Hunter admitted to shooting Marc Webley, 38, outside a pub in Granton, Edinburgh.

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4 d. ago Triple murderer to be killed by firing squad after terrorizing town and leaving taunting messages for police in victim’s blood

Bryant will be the third man executed by firing squad in South Carolina this year

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4 d. ago South Carolina court rejects death row appeal days before execution

South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop Friday's execution of a man who killed three people over five days and left taunting messages for police in one of the victim's blood

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4 d. ago Vile female cartel killer 'bathed in victims' blood and had sex with corpses

Juana N reportedly took part in decapitations and brutal torture after climbing through the ranks of the Mexican Los Zetas gang

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5 d. ago Woman suffers heart attack during 'petty' dispute with neighbour

The victim spent two weeks in hospital and will be on blood-thinning medication for the rest of her life

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7 d. ago Reform chaos in Farage's flagship council 'threatens public safety'

Reform UK won a majority on Kent County Council in May but have since suspended nine councillors, imposing limits on Kent’s fire and rescue service Chief Executive ability to spend

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7 d. ago Man beat dad, 89, with hammer after he was told to tidy his room

Police attending the house found 'blood splatters, blood smeared walls, and the victim's glasses on the floor'

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8 d. ago ‘Erin Patterson remains mysterious to me’: Helen Garner, Sarah Krasnostein and Chloe Hooper on the mushroom murders

Three of Australia’s most acclaimed writers have teamed up to write The Mushroom Tapes, about the weeks they spent at the triple-murder trial, picking apart lies, media ethics and evil“None of us wants to write about this. And none of us wants to not write about it.”The profound inner conflict of the three narrators begins on page two of The Mushroom Tapes and never quite resolves, lingering as an ethical tension that colours almost every page. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Couple reveal how six people fleeing Huntingdon train attack sheltered in their home as terrified victims arrived at their front door covered in blood

Jan and Les Sears, of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, became unwitting heroes after opening their door to six terrified passengers fleeing a frenzied knife attack on a train.

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1 week ago Man who killed girlfriend's brother pictured as he's found guilty of murder

Stephen Bates, 42, has been found guilty of murdering Martin O'Donovan when he hit him with his Ford Fiesta outside his sister's home in Liverpool while heavily intoxicated

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1 week ago Grenfell and Hillsborough families make powerful plea against Farage law change

Victims of institutional injustices including Grenfell, Hillsbourgh, Windrush and the infected blood scandals say the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is 'more vital than ever'

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2 w. ago Death Row murderer choses gruesome execution after taunting cops with blood

Stephen Bryant was sentenced to death more than 15 years ago after he killed three in South Carolina, and wrote a taunting message to cops using one victim's blood

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2 w. ago What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our timesPier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italy’s premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone knew his taste for working-class hustlers. A hookup gone wrong was the instant verdict.Some deaths are so suggestive that they become emblematic of a subject, the deceiving lens through which an entire life is forever after read. In this weirdly totalitarian mode of interpretation, Virginia Wo...

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2 w. ago ‘Perverse’ to charge infected blood victims’ families inheritance tax, MPs say

The criticism came as the Government launched a public consultation on proposed changes to the infected blood compensation scheme.

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3 w. ago Blood infection scandal victims demand Rachel Reeves changes rules so they don't lose millions in compensation payments

After a long battle beset with public authority cover-ups on a grand scale, the government agreed to set aside £11.8bn for the victims and their families last year.

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