17 h. ago Mum says daughter was treated ‘like a feral dog in a cage’ before prison death

The inquest at Cheshire Coroner's Court in Warrington determined that neglect had played a role in the death.

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17 h. ago Mother says daughter treated ‘like a feral dog in a cage’ after prison death

Alex Davies, who suffered from severe borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, was found dead in her segregation cell.

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60 h. 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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60 h. 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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61 h. 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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3 d. ago Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks governor for life in prison instead

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date

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5 d. ago What is next for Nicolas Sarkozy? Former French president freed from prison and put under ‘judicial supervision’

Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, was found guilty in September of criminal conspiracy but will be freed

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5 d. ago Inside France’s grim La Santé prison where Sarkozy received death threats

Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, was found guilty in September of criminal conspiracy but will be freed

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5 d. ago Inside France’s grim La Santé prison where Sarkozy is receiving death threats

Sarkozy, 70, was found guilty in September of criminal conspiracy but could be freed

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7 d. ago Death row gran Lindsay Sandiford's shock new life in UK and why she's still 'easy target'

As Lindsay Sandiford lands on UK soil after years on death row at Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison behind, experts warn the drugs mule gran may face dark new challenges in this next chapter of her life

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8 d. ago Teenager is given five years in a young offenders institution for causing the death of a 17

19-year-old Corey Owen Cooper was sentenced to five years in prison today after the court found his dangerous driving caused the death of Josh Atkins.

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8 d. ago First picture of death row grandmother Lindsay Sandiford back on British soil as she returns from Bali

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, who was convicted of smuggling £1.6million worth of cocaine into Bali 13 years ago, was pictured arriving in Heathrow 's Terminal 4 today.

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8 d. ago Drug mule gran arrives back in UK after 12 years on Bali death row

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was on death row in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison

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8 d. ago Three prisoners charged with murder after child killer found dead in cell

The attack comes less than a month after paedophile singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at the same prison.

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8 d. ago Death of child killer in prison cell as three inmates charged with murder

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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9 d. ago Couple's monstrous dying moments after stepdad butchered them before school run

A man who brutally attacked his stepdaughter with a hammer before stabbing her and her husband to death has been sentenced to life in prison for the horrific double murder

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1 week ago Three prisoners arrested after child killer found dead in cell

The incident comes less than a month after paedophile singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at the same prison.

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1 week ago Libyan general accused of crimes against humanity arrested in Tripoli

Osama Almasri Najim was arrested in Italy in January on an ICC warrant, only to be released and flown back to LibyaA Libyan general wanted by the international criminal court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity has been arrested in Tripoli.Osama Almasri Najim, the former chief of Libya’s judicial police, was arrested over allegations of torturing prisoners, leading to the death of one, at Tripoli’s main prison, Libya’s prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fugitive Nicholas Rossi who faked his own death sentenced to ten years in prison

Nicholas Rossi, who faked his own death and fled to Scotland, has been found guilty of raping another women in Utah in 2008.

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1 week ago 'Worst serial killer' in history dies after slaughtering 13, including his own kids

One of America's most notorious mass murderers has died in prison after cheating death for a horrifying racism-fuelled bloodbath back in 1982, where he killed 13

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