69 h. ago Woman wrongly held for years on US death row dies in Irish house fire

Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was exonerated of murder after 17 years and later married an Irish manAfter enduring hellish years on America’s death row for a crime she did not commit, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs found an idyll, and healing, in rural Ireland. But in a final, cruel twist, her sanctuary claimed her life.Jacobs, 78, and her carer, Kevin Kelly, were found dead on Tuesday after a fire at her cottage near the village of Casla, in County Galway. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Death row survivor wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years dies in horror house fire

A survivor of Florida's death row has tragically died in a house fire - Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs, who was wrongfully jailed for 17 years, died in a fire in Galway earlier this week

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3 d. ago Exonerated US death row inmate turned campaigner dies in Irish house fire

Sunny Jacobs died following the blaze at the Sunny Healing Centre in rural Co Galway.

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7 d. ago South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection amid concerns about firing squad

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by firing squad

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2 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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2 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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2 w. ago Death Row inmate's heartbreaking final six words before police killer died by lethal injection

Benjamin Ritchie was put to death via lethal injection around 6am UK time after more than 20 years on death row after he was convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer

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4 w. ago 5 botched Death Row executions with one so bad staff had '13 years of therapy'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: This week a Death Row inmate took four minutes to die after a firing squad failed to shoot him properly. But it was far from a one-off, as Daily Star shows with this grisly report

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4 w. ago Entire US firing squad 'botches' execution leaving death row inmate to die slowly

An autopsy has revealed that South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi 'suffered' longer than the 10-15 second window he was supposed to after being shot in the heart by a firing squad

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