13 h. ago Woman who slit teen's throat first to be executed by US state in over 200 years

Christa Gail Pike was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 for the brutal killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer and now Tennessee's Supreme Court has finally set an execution date

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15 h. ago Australian mushroom killer Erin Patterson set to appeal triple murder conviction

New legal team says they intend to file appeal but need more time to prepare

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54 h. ago Transgender prisoner Barbie Kardashian released despite 'grave concerns'

Barbie Kardashian was convicted after threatening her mother with rape, torture and murder.

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64 h. ago Charing Cross Hospital murder: Investigation launched after man, 85, 'killed by fellow patient'

The Metropolitan Police were called to general and teaching hospital in Hammersmith last month following reports of a patient attacking another patient

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3 d. ago Lucy Letby bombshell documentary revelations from 'gifts' to strange laughter

Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked

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3 d. ago Netanyahu warns Hamas to accept Trump’s Gaza peace plan including role for Tony Blair: Live updates

Former British PM Tony Blair would join Gaza’s governing board — run by Trump — under a sweeping White House plan

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3 d. ago Netanyahu warns Hamas to accept Trump’s Gaza peace plan that includes role for Tony Blair: Live updates

Former British PM Tony Blair would join Gaza’s governing board — run by Trump — under a sweeping White House plan

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4 d. ago Trump and Netanyahu demand Hamas accept Gaza peace plan: Live updates

Former British PM Tony Blair would join Gaza’s governing board — run by Trump — under a sweeping White House plan

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4 d. ago Trump and Tony Blair set to run Gaza if Hamas accepts ‘peace plan’ but Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ if not: Live updates

Former British PM would join Gaza’s governing board — run by Trump — under a sweeping White House plan

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4 d. ago Trump and Netanyahu unveil Gaza ‘peace plan’ that depends on Hamas surrender or Israel will ‘finish the job by itself’: Live updates

Tony Blair would join governing board for Gaza under sweeping 20-point plan from White House

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6 d. ago Memphis police launch manhunt for convicted murderer released on technicality

When Anthony Green was convicted of murder Wednesday, his $500,000 bond was revoked, according to local news

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7 d. ago Cleared Jill Dando murder suspect Barry George is charged with rape and indecent assault of 14

The man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of Jill Dando has today been charged with rape and indecent assault.

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7 d. ago The star witness now admits he was drunk – so why is Jason Moore still behind bars?

After he was tracked down by an investigative journalist, the only witness for the murder of Robert Darby admitted he was drunk and does not know if he identified the right person. Now Jason Moore’s family is mounting a fresh bid for justice after 11 years behind bars, Amy-Clare Martin writes

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7 d. ago New Zealand man convicted of murder for boarding house fire that killed five tenants

The 2023 Loafers Lodge fire provoked outrage about the dilapidated and often unregulated state of boarding houses in New ZealandA New Zealand jury has convicted a man of murder and arson for setting fire to a Wellington boarding house where he lived that killed five fellow tenants, in a case which provoked outrage about the dilapidated and often unregulated state of boarding houses, which mostly accommodate low-income people with few options.The jury at the high court in Wellington reached the verdicts against Esarona David Lologa after less than three days of deliberations, rejecting the defence of insanity argued by Lologa’s lawyers. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago New Zealand jury convicts man of murder for boarding house fire that killed 5 fellow tenants

A jury has convicted a man of murder for setting a fire at the New Zealand boarding house where he lived that killed five fellow tenants

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8 d. ago What to know about Arizona serial killings that resulted in 8 murder convictions

An Arizona man has been convicted on eight murder charges for a string of fatal shootings in Phoenix after a trial that spanned several months

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9 d. ago A drunk driver hit our car, my three friends died, and I began a fight for my life – and my ballet career

At 20, Marc Brew was the sole survivor of a terrible crash that killed his fellow dancers. Paralysed from the chest down, he had to learn to live in a new, uncharted realityMarc Brew was sitting in the back seat of a car on a motorway near Johannesburg, telling jokes and laughing with his friends, when a pickup came hurtling down the wrong side of the road towards them. “Out of nowhere, I just remember seeing this white flash,” says Brew, who was 20 at the time. The truck, which he later found out had a drunk driver at the wheel, drove straight into the car he was in. The crash killed everyone else in the vehicle.Nine months previously, Brew had moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company, based in Pretoria. That Saturday, he had attended his usual morning dance classes, before he and his friend Joanne, another member of the company, set off with her brother, Simon, and Simon’s fiancee’s brother, Toby, towards a game reserve where they had planned to go bush...

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9 d. ago Jury mulls a verdict for a man accused of killing 5 by setting fire to a New Zealand boarding house

A jury began its deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of murdering five people in Wellington, New Zealand, by setting fire to a boarding house

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1 week ago UK nurse jailed for killing four patients is denied chance to appeal

Three judges block Colin Campbell’s attempt to overturn his murder convictions at the supreme courtA nurse convicted of murdering four patients and trying to kill a fifth will not be allowed to appeal to the supreme court, judges have ruled.Colin Campbell, 49, was jailed for life in 2008 for killing Doris Ludlam, Bridget Bourke, Irene Crookes and Ethel Hall on orthopaedic wards in hospitals in Leeds. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nurse’s murder convictions will not be considered at Supreme Court

Judges have refused the appeals of Colin Campbell, formerly Colin Norris.

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