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Inmate Uses Last Words to Forgive Victim's Family
There was no apology given nor remorse shown before Charles Rhines was put to death in South Dakota Monday night for murdering Donnivan Schaeffer in 1992—but with his last words, Rhines did "forgive"...
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Pakistan Sentences Former Ruler to Death
A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country's former military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed in 2007 while in power,...
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DNA Will Prove If State Executed an Innocent Man
Ledell Lee was executed in Arkansas in 2017 , despite legal challenges requesting more DNA testing using modern technology; the state denied those requests. Lee never stopped insisting he was innocent...
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Man Who Killed 8 Gets 4 Death Sentences
A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Thursday, hours after he spoke in court and blamed the devil for his actions the night eight people were shot to death . Willie Cory...
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Iran to Execute Man Who Spied on Soleimani
An Iranian man who provided information on Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani to US and Israeli intelligence has been sentenced to die, according to Iran's judiciary. A spokesperson...
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First Federal Execution in 17 Years Is Delayed Again
A US district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana, per the AP . The...
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Boston Marathon Bomber Has Death Sentence Overturned
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
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China Sentences 4th Canadian to Death
China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was...
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Feds Execute Man Who Thought He Killed 'Tinkerbell'
The US government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him. William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was...
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Chinese Kindergarten Teacher to Die for Her School Crime
A former kindergarten teacher in China "should be punished severely in accordance with the law," said a Henan province court ruling Monday, per CNN , and the punishment it doled out is the severest of...
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'Twitter Killer' Hears His Fate
The "Twitter Killer" of Japan has heard his fate, and he didn't react. Takahiro Shiraishi received the death penalty Tuesday after pleading guilty in September for the murder and dismemberment of nine...
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Bad News for Only Woman on Federal Death Row
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the AP reports. The ruling, handed down Friday by a...
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Attorneys for Woman Set to Be Executed Ask Trump to Intervene
The only woman on federal death row is set to be executed Tuesday—but her lawyers are hoping the president will intervene. Lisa Montgomery's defense team filed a petition for clemency Tuesday, USA...
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Woman Executed by the US for the First Time Since 1953
After hours of legal back-and-forth, Lisa Montgomery was executed early Wednesday at a federal prison complex in Indiana. The Kansas 52-year-old is the first female put to death in the US since 1953,...
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12th Federal Execution Under Trump Takes Place
The US government executed a drug trafficker Thursday for his involvement in a series of slayings in Virginia’s capital city in 1992, despite claims by his lawyers that the lethal injection would cause...
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20 Years Later, Killer Apologizes to Victim's Family
A man convicted of murder and sentenced to death two decades ago has apologized to his victim’s family, reports the Tampa Bay Times . Adam Davis was in court Monday for a short hearing in which his...
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Roof's Lawyers: Defense 'Breakdown' Merits Death Sentence Nix
Before white supremacist Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for killing nine Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, SC, he told jurors to "forget" what his lawyers had said about him being...
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South Carolina Judge Won't Block 2 Controversial Executions
A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state’s new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned...
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Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Is Resentenced
Raymond Riles has been on death row for more than 45 years—longer than anyone else in the US. But no longer: On Wednesday, the 71-year-old Texas man was resentenced to life in prison, CBS DFW reports....
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Attempt of 'Black Widow' to Claim Dementia Goes South
For nearly four years, Chisako Kakehi's legal team has been pushing back on her 2017 death sentence, arguing that the 74-year-old woman Japan knows as the "Black Widow" has dementia, rendering her...
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