27 h. ago ‘I watched innocent man die in Death Row gas chamber – his chilling last words still haunt me’

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is turning to illegal substances to kill inmates

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44 h. ago Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn't be executed

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution

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46 h. ago Killer jailed for beating neighbour to death after row over closing a gate

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate.

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46 h. ago Man who beat pensioner to death over gate row jailed for 12 years

Trevor Gocan was sentenced for the fatal assault on Jim O’Neill, 74, over a gate being left open.

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50 h. ago Death Row man's chilling message to execution audience after polishing off McDonald's

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was given a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman almost 50 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter

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52 h. ago Death Row killer's fried final meal with 'black cow' on the side before execution

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman

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58 h. ago Death Row inmate of 48 years ate chicken tenders and a root beer float before execution

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. He was one of several people on Mississippi's death row suing the state over its three-drug execution protocol, which they claim is inhumane

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59 h. ago Mississippi executes inmate who’s been on death row almost half a century

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after being on death row since 1976

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3 d. ago Rapist and killer executed on death row 30 years after crimes

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was killed by lethal injection, more than 30 years after he raped and killed a woman.

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3 d. ago Rapist and killer finally repents as he's executed on death row 30 years later

Thomas Lee Gudinas had been on death row at Florida State Prison near Starke since his conviction in 1995 of the rape and killing of Michelle McGrath in the southeastern state

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5 d. ago Blind man stabbed flatmate to death after TV remote row got out of hand

Scott Thomson stabbed his flatmate Jamie Murray 'straight into his heart' during a row over a TV remote at their home in Manchester

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7 d. ago Blind man stabbed flatmate to death after row over TV remote got out of hand

Scott Thomson was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his friend and housemate Jamie Murray

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7 d. ago America's Skid Row infected with the Black Death as woman holds dead rat in her hands

A drug addict called Princess on Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row appeared on a popular interview show covered in grim lesions, while kissing and petting a dead rat

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1 week ago Man formerly on death row can't serve 2 life terms at the same time, Tennessee Supreme Court rules

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row concurrent sentences of life in prison

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2 w. ago South Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months

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2 w. ago Death row inmate executed for 1999 brutal murder of elderly woman says he's "not evil"

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999, but his exection was expedited by the Trump administration

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2 w. ago Death row inmate's strange final act of defiance before he was executed for raping and murdering young mom

Anthony Wainwright, 54, had been so terrified of dying in the days leading up to his execution that Reverand Jeff Hood flew from Arkansas to Florida to be by his side in his final hours.

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2 w. ago Oklahoma court clears the way for execution of a man convicted in a Tulsa woman's killing

An Oklahoma appeals court has ordered a stay of execution for a man on death row to be lifted, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection

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2 w. ago Death row killer Gregory Hunt makes hand gesture moments before he's executed

Gregory Hunt was found guilty of capital murder during sexual abuse and burglary by a jury, with jurors recommending by an 11-1 vote that he should receive a death sentence

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2 w. ago Murderer makes a chilling last hand gesture before convulsing as he's suffocated to death in 'cruel' nitrogen mask execution in Alabama

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

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