4 h. ago Agonising execution as killer continued speaking after lethal injection

Officials maintained the killing had proceeded normally, stating the extended time was simply to allow murderer to make his final statements

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4 h. ago Killer's final words during lethal injection execution 'weren't normal'

Brian David Steckel spoke lucidly to witnesses for minutes despite lethal drugs coursing through his body during execution

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28 h. ago Chilling 'six final words' of journalist before being beheaded by terrorists

James Foley disappeared on November 22, 2012, in north-west Syria near the border with Turkey. Two years later, horrifying footage emerged of him reading a script preapred by ISIS terrorists

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28 h. ago Journalist beheaded by terrorists uttered six chilling final words

US journalist James Foley was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and beheaded by ISIS two years later

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28 h. ago Man choked to death after eating live cockroaches in gruesome competition

Edward Archbold, 32, died after choking during a cockroach-eating competition at a Florida reptile store

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28 h. ago Man's horrifying death as he eats cockroaches in gruesome competition

Edward Archbold, 32, collapsed and died after taking part in a cockroach eating contest at a Florida reptile store

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68 h. ago Mystery of missing beauty influencer: A chilling final text, a 'dark figure' and a blood

Stefanie Pieper, 32, had failed to turn up to a photoshoot on Monday. So far, no one has been able to contact her after she was last seen at 7am on November 23

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7 d. ago 'Cruelest death in history' where man's flesh was torn off and EATEN by prisoners

Human history has been filled with gruesome bloodshed, but for some there is one cruel death above all others that stands out as the most horrifying executions on record

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8 d. ago Stone Roses' Mani said he's 'getting too old' in haunting final message days before death

Gary 'Mani' Mounfield, bassist for The Stone Roses, has died aged 63 and the Britpop legend shared a chilling confession in his final message to his loyal fans

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8 d. ago Revealed: Suicidal British woman made chilling final video of how she wanted to be murdered in US Airbnb by man she met in a fetish chatroom

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sonia Exelby, a 32-year-old digital content creator, flew to Florida last month 'seeking a violent death' just days before her body was found buried in a shallow grave.

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9 d. ago Media tycoon's gruesome death after being buried alive in tiny box in botched kidnapping

Stephen Small was a media mogul who was kidnapped and buried alive in a 6ft box by a drug dealer who demanded a $1million ransom - but the killer has now walked free

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1 week ago Bear expert's chilling final journal entry before his bloodied corpse was found

Vitaly Nikolayenko, one of Russia’s most experienced bear experts, spent months on end in the wilderness, documenting the bears' habits and making hundreds of journal entries

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1 week ago Politician's gruesome death as swarm of rampaging monkeys raid his home

Surinder Singh Bajwa, a deputy mayor in New Delhi, India, was on the first-floor terrace of his house when a group of rhesus macaques swarmed the balcony and he fell

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1 week ago Parents 'starved son, three, to death "after abusing him in the most gruesome way" after fortune teller convinced them he was a demon'

Elias, born in Tyrol, Austria, died weighing only seven kilograms as a result of months of malnutrition and dehydration, an autopsy found.

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago One man's horrific death tops historian's list of 'most gruesome' final moments

Historian Alexander Meddings has spent years studying the most gruesome deaths in history - and he believes there is one that stands out above all others

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2 w. ago Reality TV star and snake handling pastor's gruesome death after rattlesnake bite

Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was a snake-handling pastor who believed that the serpents wouldn't hurt him

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2 w. ago 'I'm an expert and man had penis chopped off in most gruesome death in history'

Historian Alexander Meddings has spent years studying some of the most gruesome deaths in history - and he believes there is one that stands out above all the rest

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2 w. ago Train robber decapitated in public hanging gone wrong after executioner made mistake

Thomas Edward Ketchum, a member of the 'Hole-in-the-Wall' gang, suffered a gruesome death

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2 w. ago Lawrence Shankland puts hand up for starring Scotland role as he tells Steve Clarke he's ready to become a hero

Shankland is back in the squad and he insists he's ready to fire us to North America in the summer

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