3 h. ago The execution that haunts prison worker 28 years later: Death row officer had therapy for a decade after horrific mishap filled cells with the smell of 'burning flesh'

Ron McAndrew witnessed executions using the electric chair in Florida, but one traumatising death never left him and the botched execution led to the prison ending the use of the electric chair.

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19 h. ago Man beat neighbour to death following row over closing a gate

Mr O’Neill was left with a bleed on the brain and died in hospital almost a fortnight lat

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29 h. ago Sick Death Row child killer gorged on lavish final meal hours before lethal injection

Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, was convicted of the murders of his girlfriend Renee Flaherty, 32, and her three children Geoffrey, 9, Amanada, 7, and Logan, 4, in 1998.

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36 h. ago Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25

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2 d. ago Death Row killer hours away from execution despite 'Gulf War brain damage' claim

Jeffrey Hutchinson murdered his girlfriend and her three children in their home while her eldest son watched and is set to be executed on May 1, but his lawyers are trying to stop it

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4 d. ago US Supreme Court declines review of Mississippi death row inmate's convictions in killings of 8

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff

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7 d. ago Moment alleged killer buys coffee and sandwich minutes 'before he beat neighbour to death' in Covent Garden estate is shown to court

Prosecutors say Trevor Gocan, 57, punched and kicked pensioner James O'Neill, 74, before leaving him bleeding on the floor at an estate where they both lived in Covent Garden.

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8 d. ago Murderer James Osgood apologies for killing but is still executed on death row

James Osgood raped and murdered Tracy Lynn Brown in Chiltern County, Alabama, crimes for which he said he deserved to die before he was given a lethal injection

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8 d. ago Murderer James Osgood apologises for killing but is still executed on death row

James Osgood raped and murdered Tracy Lynn Brown in Chiltern County, Alabama, crimes for which he said he deserved to die before he was given a lethal injection

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9 d. ago Murderer gives emotional last words minutes before death row execution

Moises Sandoval Mendoza stangled and stabbed his victim and left the body in a stream.

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9 d. ago Alabama to execute man who asked for his death sentence to stop ‘wasting everybody’s time’

The prisoner will join approximately one in ten people on death row in America who ask for their own executions

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9 d. ago Callous murderer's emotional last words before he's executed by injection on death row

Moises Sandoval Mendoza was pronounced dead 19 minutes after receiving an injection at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, where he had been held for the murder of a young mum

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9 d. ago Death Row killer begging to be executed finally gets 'eye for an eye' wish tomorrow

James Osgood is set to receive a lethal injection in Alabama tomorrow (April 24) after he admitted murdering a woman in 2010, and has said he wants to be killed

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9 d. ago Pensioner 'beaten to death by Covent Garden neighbour in row over shutting a gate'

Jim O’Neill died after being punched by a neighbour in a row over shutting the front gate to their estate, a court heard

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1 week ago JK Rowling unleashes on shameless politicians who refuse to apologise for 'siding with the issuers of death and rape threats' against trans row campaigners

The Harry Potter author, 59, said she is 'one of millions of women disgusted' and vowed she would not forget.

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1 week ago Death row brothers who spent 23 hours a day in a box over murders are given new sentence

Thinkwell Moyo and Fred Dube brutally murdered a taxi driver by cutting his throat and stabbing him repeatedly before leaving him in a shallow grave with his head 'hanging loosely'

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1 week ago Bali death row drug mule nan Lindsay Sandiford gets 'cuddles and kisses' in prison reunion

Lindsay Sandiford, a Brit drug mule, who has been banged up in an Indonesian hell hole prison for the last 12 years awaiting execution has had an emotional visit from her family

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1 week ago Brit on death row in Bali for drug smuggling reunites with family

British cocaine trafficker Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent over 12 years on death row in Bali's Kerobokan jail, but new laws in Indonesia have given her hope of freedom.

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1 week ago Bali death row drug mule nan Lindsay Sandiford in heartbreaking prison reunion

Death row drugs mule Lindsay Sandiford shared "cuddles and kisses" with her grandchildren for the first time in years as they visited her in prison

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1 week ago Death row drugs gran hugs grandchildren for the first time as family visit Bali hellhole prison

Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent 12 years awaiting execution by firing squad at the notorious Kerobokan Prison, having been found attempting to smuggle cocaine into the Indonesian island.

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