23 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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40 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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42 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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43 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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46 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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48 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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55 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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55 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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64 h. ago Fresh twist in hunt for 'Italy's Madeleine McCann': DNA tests to be carried out on woman resembling missing girl who vanished on picnic aged three 29 years ago

Angela Celentano disappeared in 1996, aged three, while at a picnic with her parents in Monte Faito - years later, a woman told police she had been kidnapped and was being kept on a Turkish island.

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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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4 d. ago Cancer breakthrough as 'personalised treatment' could transform chemotherapy success in UK

Scientists have created a DNA test to predict resistance to life-saving chemotherapy in cancer patients

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4 d. ago Cancer breakthrough could transform chemotherapy success rates in UK

Tens of thousands of cancer patients going through gruelling chemotherapy could have DNA test to predict which form of the drug most likely to kill their cancer

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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 DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.31m for ‘serious security failings’

A cyber attack on the genetic testing firm saw personal information of 155,592 UK residents accessed in a major cyber attack in 2023.

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1 week ago DNA testing firm 23andMe fined £2.3m by UK regulator for 2023 data hack

Information stolen from US company included details of 150,000 British residents including family treesThe genetic testing company 23andMe has been fined more than £2.3m for failing to protect the personal information of more than 150,000 UK residents after a large-scale cyberattack in 2023.Family trees, health reports, names and postcodes were among the sensitive data hacked from the California-based company. It only confirmed the breach months after the infiltration started and once an employee saw the stolen data advertised for sale on the social media platform Reddit, according to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office – which levied the fine. Continue reading...

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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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1 week ago A plane crashed on a doctors' hostel in India. Those who survived began treating the injured

Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel in Ahmedabad say their first reaction was to help treat the injured

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