24 h. ago Death row inmate executed for 1999 brutal murder of elderly woman says he's "not evil"

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999, but his exection was expedited by the Trump administration

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36 h. ago Death row inmate's strange final act of defiance before he was executed for raping and murdering young mom

Anthony Wainwright, 54, had been so terrified of dying in the days leading up to his execution that Reverand Jeff Hood flew from Arkansas to Florida to be by his side in his final hours.

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44 h. ago Oklahoma inmate to be executed after Trump officials expedited order

He was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, and murder in 1999

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65 h. ago Murderer makes a chilling last hand gesture before convulsing as he's suffocated to death in 'cruel' nitrogen mask execution in Alabama

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

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65 h. ago Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate ask a court to stop his execution

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions

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67 h. ago Death row inmate made haunting final hand symbol before being executed for killing a woman

An Alabama man who was executed yesterday for the 1988 murder of a woman made a chilling final hand gesture before being put to death with nitrogen gas.

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3 d. ago Three inmates to be executed in three states this week, amid an uptick nationwide

A total of 19 inmates in nine states have been executed in the U.S. this year, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.

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6 d. ago The death row inmate's last meal that sparked such fury prisoners are no longer allowed to choose what they eat before execution

White supremacist Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 after he was convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck.

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3 w. ago Furious final words of death row's oldest inmate as he is executed for murdering his estranged wife and sons

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

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3 w. ago Death row inmate executed 33 years after killing family but claims innocence in final words

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders in 1989

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3 w. ago Death row fiend executed with chilling last 4 words 33 years after killing family

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders in 1989

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3 w. ago Death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed in South Carolina

The inmate appears to want to die himself after his best friend was executed in January

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3 w. ago South Carolina death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself

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3 w. ago Death row inmate Matthew Lee Johnson's last words as he's executed for setting gran on fire

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Matthew Lee Johnson, who set shop assistant Nancy Harris on fire during a robbery in Dallas, Texas, addressed the victim's relatives before he was executed in prison

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3 w. ago Witness to death row execution gives chilling account of inmate's final moments

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing a police officer, the inmate was given a lethal injection

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