4 h. ago Utah judge schedules execution by firing squad for a man with dementia

A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years

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6 d. ago Alabama sets nitrogen execution for man convicted of killing store clerk during 1997 robbery

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a 1997 robbery

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2 w. ago Staff praised for doing 'fantastic job' before man executed for raping and killing woman outside bar

A total of 24 men have been put to death in the U.S. this year, with scheduled executions set to make 2025 the year with the most executions since 2015

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2 w. ago Florida set to execute man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside of a bar

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar is scheduled to be executed

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2 w. ago ‘Gold standard’: training centre could be gamechanger for football in US

On a 200-acre site in Fayette County, Georgia, US Soccer hopes to build the best facility of its like in the worldThirty minutes away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Atlanta, the land becomes greener, the trees are taller and builders are working in the intense Georgia sun to ensure US Soccer’s new National Training Center is ready for action in time for the men’s World Cup next year.It is an enormous site, spanning more than 200 acres in Trilith, Fayette County, and the hope is it will be the best training facility in the world when it opens. Funding has partly come from Arthur M Blank, who owns three sports teams in Atlanta, and executives are confident everything is on schedule for the doors to open in April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago They planned to seek asylum. Trump’s policies have left them stranded at the US

Five months after the president closed the border, many who planned to enter US legally don’t know where to turnDonald Trump’s crackdown on immigration upended lives on inauguration day when he abruptly closed the border for many who were just on the Mexican side of the border planning to cross into the US legally. Five months on, some hold on to hope, others are giving up.A family from El Salvador seeking asylum was left stranded at the border within sight of Texas only three days into the second Trump administration. A grandfather, his daughter, his niece, her husband and two of his grandchildren had done things “the right way”, by requesting one of the highly limited appointments with US Border Patrol, from the Mexican side using the Biden-era mobile phone app called CBPOne. But on January 20, Trump signed an executive order cancelling all scheduled appointments, including theirs on 23 January at noon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago South Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months

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4 w. ago US to put four prisoners to death this week as Trump pushes for executions

Killings scheduled in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina despite concern over states’ methodsFour executions are scheduled across the US this week, marking a sharp increase in killings as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty despite growing concerns about states’ methods.Executions are set to take place in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. A fourth, scheduled in Oklahoma, has been temporarily blocked by a judge, but the state’s attorney general is challenging the ruling. Continue reading...

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