37 h. ago Prosecutor makes offers to 10 New York prison guards charged in inmate's death

A special prosecutor says he made offers to resolve criminal cases against 10 New York prison guards indicted in the beating death of a handcuffed man

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6 d. ago Boxer on death row for 46 years after he was framed for quadruple murder by police awarded record payout

Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate

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8 d. ago Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan

Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murderA Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an official has said.The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the 46 years that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Death row inmate's last act of defiance... and his very exotic final meal

Aaron Gunches, 53, was pronounced dead at 10.33am on Wednesday. He offered no resistance as the lethal injection was administered.

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1 week ago Arizona executes Aaron Gunches in state’s first execution in nearly two years

Death row inmate was convicted of the 2002 murder of Ted Price

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1 week ago Death row inmate Aaron Brian Gunches can't wait to die after waiting 17 years for the lethal injection

Most death row inmates are begging for a last minute reprieve. But Arizona killer Aaron Brian Gunches has been begging to be executed for nearly 20 years.

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2 w. ago ‘I don’t want him executed. I want him to suffer:’ Murder victim’s family speaks out ahead of death row inmate’s execution

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on Wednesday morning

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2 w. ago South Carolina inmate facing execution calls his defense more superficial than a 'Law & Order' show

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution, saying his defense’s plea for his life at his original trial was totally inadequate

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2 w. ago Killer Jessie Hoffman's bizarre excuse for why he shouldn't be gassed to death as he races clock to stop execution planned for TONIGHT

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for his conviction of the brutal 1996 rape and murder of 28-year-old accounting executive Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

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2 w. ago Lawyers race against time to halt Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years

It will be the first time Louisiana has put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas

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2 w. ago The death row inmate who can't wait to die and has been waiting YEARS for his lethal injection

Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, was convicted of murder in 2007 after he kidnapped and gunned down his girlfriend's ex-husband Ted Price in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, in 2002.

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2 w. ago Two corrections staff and former inmate arrested on sexual misconduct and conspiracy charges

The arrests come a day after another former corrections officer pleaded guilty to sneaking in contraband

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2 w. ago Alabama to execute inmate who dropped appeals and asked for death

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death

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3 w. ago Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method

Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violatedA man scheduled to become the first person executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana is challenging the method in court, arguing it violates his religious beliefs.A federal judge will decide whether executing Jessie Hoffman Jr by nitrogen hypoxia violates his constitutional right to practice his religion, which includes Buddhist breathing and meditation exercises that would be impeded by the gas during the capital punishment. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Chilling last words of death row inmate first to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, became the first US death row inmate in 15 years to be executed by firing squad when he was shot by three prison guards - his final words have now been revealed

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3 w. ago Death row inmate's chilling message and kind gesture before death by firing squad

Brad Sigmon bludgeoned his then-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat in a crazed act of violence 23 years ago, although is believed to have converted to Christianity in more recent years

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3 w. ago Final words of first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

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3 w. ago Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method

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3 w. ago Death row inmate is executed by firing squad after choosing how he would die

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given special permission to pick the manner of his execution

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3 w. ago South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in US in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in front of his heart and three employee volunteers shot him

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