13 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Queen's love rival and pal Lady Amabel dies aged 90

She was a love rival in the Swinging Sixties who became a firm friend of Queen Camilla. Lady Amabel Lindsay, daughter of the 9th Earl of Hardwicke, has died at the age of 90.

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20 h. ago First woman to be executed on death row in 200 years for ‘parading love rival’s skull'

Christa Gail Pike, 49, was aged just 18 when she helped lure a woman to the woods and then bragged about the killing and has spent 27 years as the only woman on Tennessee’s death row

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22 h. ago 'Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer's Budget is simply buying more time on political death row'

The PM and Chancellor are hoping their Budget will save their skins, says Fleet Street Fox. They'll be lucky to make it past Christmas

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23 h. ago Vegas brides at war as beautician sues love rival over late husband's £1.8m

Millionaire accountant and property tycoon James Dinsdale died of cancer, aged 55, leaving a sizeable fortune that has sparked a brutal row between his former partners

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2 d. ago Married CEO and woman executive quit after getting steamy on Zoom in front of colleagues

A company boss and a female executive have both quit their jobs after getting frisky in a boardroom, not realising that a computer was sending a video of their romp to their colleagues

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3 d. ago ‘Bloodbath’ prison where Death Row executions are botched and guards live in constant fear

The notorious William C. Holman Correctional Facility was described as ‘objectively unsafe’, a place where overcrowded lags do battle in scorching kitchens to stay alive

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4 d. ago Florida Death Row rapist's last meal as he tucks into fatty dinner before execution

Death Row Florida rapist Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was executed on Thursday evening but before he was able to utter his final words, he tucked into his last meal

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4 d. ago Florida rapist on death row for 36 years becomes record 17th to be executed this year

Florida has now more than doubled its previous record of executions in a year, after Richard Barry Randolph was punished by lethal injection for the brutal murder and rape of Minnie Ruth McCollum

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4 d. ago Death row inmate who killed his boss in brutal attack set for lethal injection in Florida’s 17th execution this year

The highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014

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6 d. ago Florida sets execution date for man who fatally shot man and woman during home invasion robbery

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is scheduled to be put to death in December

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9 d. ago ‘A sick spectacle’: counting down the final minutes on Oklahoma’s death row

Tremane Wood was prepared to die by lethal injection. A minute before he was to be put to death, a call came inAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionThe signature at the bottom of the email about witnessing an execution said cheerfully: “Oklahoma Corrections. We Change Lives!”I had received the email three weeks earlier. It explained that I was being invited to participate in a lottery, from which five media representatives would be selected to witness the execution of Tremane Wood in the Oklahoma state penitentiary on 13 November. I had never heard of Wood, who had been convicted of the murder of Ronnie Wipf, 19, in 2002. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Death row inmate found unconscious hours after life spared from lethal injection

Death-row inmate Termane Wood, 45, who was convicted for the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old during a botched robbery in 2002, was found unconscious in his cell after being reprieved

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9 d. 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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1 week ago Triple murderer chooses firing squad execution as state's third by deadly method this year

Stephen Bryant chose to die by firing squad after spending 21 years on death row.

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1 week ago Death row inmate has life spared but then is found unresponsive in his cell

Tremane Wood was hours away from being executed by lethal injection when he was given a reprieve by governor Kevin Stitt - but was later found unconscious in his cell

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1 week ago Death row inmate found unresponsive in his cell hours after his life was spared in last

Death row inmate Tremane Wood, 46, was discovered unresponsive in his cell just hours after learning he was granted a last-minute reprieve from execution.

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1 week ago Triple murderer chooses gruesome way to die after 20 years on death row

Stephen Bryant became only the third person to die by firing squad in the state of South Carolina this year — as the lethal injection or the electric chair are often preferred

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1 week 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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1 week ago South Carolina man is scheduled to be executed by firing squad

A man on death row in South Carolina is scheduled to be executed by firing squad

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1 week ago Florida kills man on death row in state’s 16th execution this year

Bryan Frederick Jennings, convicted over rape and murder of young girl in 1979, given three-drug lethal injectionA man found guilty in the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl was executed in Florida on Thursday.Bryan Frederick Jennings was pronounced dead at 6.20pm local time after being administered a three-drug lethal injection. Jennings was sentenced to death for the killing of Rebecca Kunash, whom he drowned in a canal, according to reports. Continue reading...

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