3 h. ago Bali death row drug mule nan Lindsay Sandiford gets 'cuddles and kisses' in prison reunion

Lindsay Sandiford, a Brit drug mule, who has been banged up in an Indonesian hell hole prison for the last 12 years awaiting execution has had an emotional visit from her family

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5 h. ago Brit on death row in Bali for drug smuggling reunites with family

British cocaine trafficker Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent over 12 years on death row in Bali's Kerobokan jail, but new laws in Indonesia have given her hope of freedom.

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6 h. ago Bali death row drug mule nan Lindsay Sandiford in heartbreaking prison reunion

Death row drugs mule Lindsay Sandiford shared "cuddles and kisses" with her grandchildren for the first time in years as they visited her in prison

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8 h. ago Death row drugs gran hugs grandchildren for the first time as family visit Bali hellhole prison

Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent 12 years awaiting execution by firing squad at the notorious Kerobokan Prison, having been found attempting to smuggle cocaine into the Indonesian island.

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16 h. ago Revealed: Weirdest death row meals for predators including three entire buckets of KFC and a single, pitted olive

A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, grand over-indulgence and statements of fury against the law.

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21 h. ago Revealed: Weirdest death row meals for predators including an entire bucket of KFC and a single strawberry

A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, grand over-indulgence and statements of fury against the law.

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45 h. ago Death row inmates sue to stop Trump from sending them to prison that housed Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber

Attorney says Trump administration is ‘just assuming they are the worst of the worst by virtue of their death sentences’

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3 d. ago Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers

These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t knowBeing an executioner is not the sort of job that gets posted in a local wanted ad. Kids don’t dream about being an executioner when they grow up, and people don’t go to school for it. So how does one become a death row executioner in the US, and who are the people doing it?This was the question I couldn’t help but ask when I began a book project on lethal injection back in 2018. I’m a death penalty researcher, and I was trying to figure out why states are so breathtakingly bad at a procedure that we use on cats and dogs every day. Part of the riddle was who is performing these executions. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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8 d. ago Violent murderer on death row Mikal Mahdi picks rare execution method

Mikal Mahdi gorged on ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and sweet tea as a his last meal on death row in South Carolina before he was executed

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8 d. ago Death Row man picks firing squad in second execution after failed plea for clemency

Mikal Mahdi, 41, was sentenced to death for the brutal slaying of an off-duty cop in South Carolina in 2004 after he'd already fatally shot a convenience store clerk in the head

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8 d. ago Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trialA prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Serial killer utters Death Row confession after keeping grim murders secret for 17 years

The ‘National Forest Serial Killer’ was convicted for the murders of four people after a gruesome killing spree and received the death sentence in April 2011 - but he's made a confession

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1 week ago Lawyers fight to stop South Carolina man’s execution by firing squad

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a man in 2004, endured prolonged torture as child and didn’t receive a fair trial, lawyers argueA 42-year-old man on South Carolina death row is fighting to stop his execution by firing squad, with his attorneys arguing he endured prolonged torture as a child and did not receive a fair trial.Mikal Mahdi is due to be killed on Friday, nearly 20 years after he was sentenced to death for the 2004 killing of James Myers, a 56-year-old off-duty public safety officer. Continue reading...

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1 week ago National Forest serial killer Gary Michael Hilton admits to murdering nurse in chilling death row confession

After 17 years of silence, National Forest serial killer Gary Michael Hilton is using the last of his days to finally unveil the depth of his horrific crimes.

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1 week ago Morbidly obese Death Row prisoner's final meal was exactly what you'd expect it to be

A morbidly obese Death Row inmate – dubbed a 'fledgling serial killer' – has been executed after eating a last meal some would say was expected for a man of his stature

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1 week ago Morbidly obese death row inmate's final meal revealed as he's executed after claiming to be too fat for lethal injection

Michael Tanzi, branded a 'fledgling serial killer,' was put to death just after 6pm on Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford after his lawyers tried to stave off his morbid end.

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1 week ago 'Fledgling serial killer' deemed 'too obese for lethal injection' to be executed

Death row killer Michael Tanzi, 48, is set to be executed this week following the murder of Janet Acosta. Officials in Florida confirmed he will be executed by lethal injection despite objections

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2 w. ago ‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour

When a no-nonsense lecturer set up a radical solution to help free the wrongfully convicted in the UK, he was hopeful he could change the justice system. But what started as a revolution ended in acrimonyThe press conference began at 2.30pm on 2 September 2004 at the Wills Memorial Building, the grand neo-gothic home to the University of Bristol’s School of Law. Michael Naughton, a charismatic, fast-talking lecturer in sociology and criminal law, addressed the assembled media. If what he was attempting sounded radical, it was only a reflection of an increasingly dire situation, Naughton told a BBC reporter. There was no way of sugarcoating it, he said. The criminal justice system was failing the rising number of people who were claiming they had been wrongfully convicted, and who remained stuck in prison without any hope of exoneration.Naughton was launching the Bristol University Innocence Project to address this crisis. The premise was clear enough. Idealistic law students, under ...

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2 w. ago Paul House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was freed, has died.

Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died

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