3 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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3 h. ago Rapist and murderer speaks fluently for 'minutes' after lethal injection

Brian David Steckel was convicted of the horrific rape and murder of 29-year-old Sandra Lee Long in 1994

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3 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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8 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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8 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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2 w. 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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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 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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2 w. ago Oklahoma death row inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Death row inmate refuses to choose between electric chair and lethal injection

Harold Nichols is scheduled to die in December for raping and murdering a student

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2 w. ago Death row inmate has days to make gruesome decision about his own execution

Harold Wayne Nichols, who was sentenced to death in 1990, is due to be executed on December 11 but he has refused to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection

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2 w. ago Tennessee death row inmate declines to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection

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3 w. ago Harrowing final words of killer executed by firing squad before gruesome death

Brad Keith Sigmon carried out a brutal double murder after a night of drinking and smoking crack cocaine - telling a friend he'd get back at his girlfriend "for leaving him"

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3 w. ago Gruesome death of killer executed by firing squad after final chilling statement

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad after he brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents

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3 w. ago Divided Oklahoma board recommends clemency for man scheduled for lethal injection

An Oklahoma board is recommending that the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be executed next week

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3 w. ago Nurse who killed ten patients and attempted to murder 27 more with lethal injections so he had less work to do is jailed for life

A nurse who killed 10 patients and tried murdering 27 more with lethal injections to reduce his workload has been jailed for life. 

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