42 h. ago Could Nick Reiner be executed? How 'suicidal' inmate might be killed if given the death penalty

District attorney Nathan Hochman says the death penalty will be considered if Nick Reiner is found guilty of murdering his parents, who were found dead with slit throats and stab wounds. A number of factors could land him on death row

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3 d. ago Obese death row inmate facing execution in two days picks final meal including pizza

Disgraced double murderer, Stacey Humphreys, who murdered two real estate agents, Cynthia Williams and Lori Brown, in 2003, will be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday

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3 d. ago Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons

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3 d. ago Tenerife hotel tragedy as man, 25, found dead hours after row with carer

Jamie Cole, 25, died whilst on holiday in Tenerife following a row with his carer, Lousha Rees, an inquest into his death heard

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6 d. ago Man who spent decades on Ohio death row sees murder case dismissed

Elwood Jones was convicted of aggravated murder, robbery and burglary in the 1994 beating death of 67-year-old Rhoda Nathan at a hotel in Blue Ash, a Cincinnati suburb

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6 d. ago She spent years trying to uncover a serial killer’s motive. Then she got too close

Exclusive video: Journalist Laura Greenberg started corresponding with serial killer Doug Gretzler when he was on death row because she “wanted to understand the monster”. But then things got murky. Andrea Cavallier reports

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6 d. ago Death row inmate orders final meal of BBQ brisket, ribs, burger, wings, French fries, pizza, soda and ice cream

Stacey Humphreys, 52, is set to be executed by lethal injection next Wednesday for the 2003 murders of real estate agents Cyndi Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21.

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7 d. ago Death row inmate apologizes for rape and murder of college student before being executed in Tennessee

Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, died by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, 20.

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7 d. ago Chilling moment former soldier admits to police he’s ‘going down for murder’ after stabbing neighbour to death

THIS is the chilling moment a former soldier admits to brutally killing his neighbour after a drunken row. Ex-Army man Elvis Vickers stabbed Abdulkadar Chadli to death in a horror attack in a Norwich flat last year. Abdulkadar, 48, known as Abs, died with a single fatal wound to the chest inside neighbour Vickers’s home...

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7 d. ago Last meal request for Georgia killer set for execution includes meat lovers pan pizza and cornbread

Stacey Humphreys is set to be executed next Wednesday

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8 d. ago Supreme Court hears Alabama death penalty case for man with intellectual disability

Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, has been on death row roughly half his life

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8 d. ago Florida executions: Mark Allen Geralds is 18th put to death in record year

Florida has executed more prisoners on death row in a single year than any other state in the US - Governor Ron DeSantis ordered the 18th execution and has approved the 19th for next week

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2 w. ago Pictured: 'Germophobic' girlfriend stabbed to death by her Goldsmiths student lover in row over STI

Zhe Wang, a 31-year-old creative writing student at the London university, was found dead with two stab wounds to her face at her flat in Manor Park, Lewisham, south-east London, in March 2024.

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2 w. ago Two elderly Dutch nationals to be sent home after a decade in Indonesia prison

Prisoners were both convicted of drug trafficking offences and one was on death row before Tuesday’s deal between governments

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2 w. ago Two elderly Dutch nationals to be repatriated after over a decade in Indonesia prison

Prisoners were both convicted of drug trafficking offences and one was on death row before Tuesday’s deal between governments

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2 w. ago Prosecutors drop effort to retry man whose conviction was overturned in 1993 New York killing

Prosecutors in western New York have dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo

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2 w. ago Death row's youngest woman 'had threesomes with her victim' before brutal murder

Emilia Carr became notorious for being the youngest woman on death row at the age of 26, after killing a woman who she was sleeping with along with her partner, according to her lawyer

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2 w. ago Indonesia to repatriate 2 convicted Dutch drug traffickers, including one on death row

Indonesia and the Netherlands have agreed to repatriate two Dutch nationals convicted on drug offenses in Indonesia

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2 w. ago Harrowing death row execution so painful 'we wouldn't use it on animals'

Jimmy Lee Gray's botched execution saw him convulse violently and bang his head against a steel pole as witnesses were cleared from the room

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2 w. ago British Army 'hero' killed in beer garden argument over chicken wings

Paul Ainscough and friend Liam Slack had been out drinking together before an argument erupted over chicken wings - the row tragically led to Paul's death

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