Death Penalty

13:38, 16 JAN 2021

Final words of death row man claiming innocence in Donald Trump execution spree

Dustin Higgs, 48, who always denied a role in the murder of three women on a wildlife reserve in Maryland, is the last death row prisoner to be executed under Donald Trump's administration

Dustin Higgs: US death row prisoner executed 4 days before Trump leaves office

Dustin Higgs has been executed by lethal injection in Indiana, US, after failed legal efforts to block the state killing - he is the last of 13 inmates to be executed by the Trump administration

US government to execute first woman in 67 years days before Trump leaves office

Lisa Montgomery, who murdered Bobbi Stinnett and then cut her unborn child out of her, is due to be put to death eight days before Joe Biden is sworn into office

Alfred Bourgeois executed: Killer uses last words to deny murdering his daughter

The 56-year-old was executed at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on December 11. In his final words, he denied killing and torturing his two-year-old daughter

Alfred Bourgeois executed: Trucker who murdered daughter, 2, killed by lethal injection

Death Penalty The 56-year-old was put on death row for torturing and killing his little girl, according to a Justice Department summary of the case, and was the second inmate killed by lethal injection in two days in the US

Orlando Hall executed: Man who raped girl and buried her alive given lethal injection

Hall, 49, was put to death for the 1994 killing of 16-year-old Lisa Rene, who was taken from her home in Texas at gunpoint and brutally murdered

Dad who murdered wife and child then slept with bodies for a week sentenced to death

Teo Ghim Heng, 45, faces the death penalty in Singapore for murdering his pregnant wife, 39, before doing the same to their four-year-old daughter

Killer who strangled pregnant victim to be first woman executed by US in 70 years

Bobbie Jo Stinnett's baby, Victoria Jo, miraculously survived after killer Lisa Montgomery strangled the mum-to-be with a rope and cut the infant out of her womb at a home in Skidmore, Missouri

Iran executes champion wrestler who was 'tortured into confessing to murder'

Navid Afkari, convicted of fatally stabbing a security guard during anti-government protests in Shiraz, Iran, was supported by the likes of Donald Trump and FIFA amid calls for Tehran to spare his life

Man, 41, sentenced to death for rape and murder of nine-year-old girl

Death Penalty Granville Ritchie, 41, was convicted of first-degree murder, sexual battery and aggravated child abuse in September 2019. On Friday, he received the death penalty in a court in Florida

Brit woman who escaped death penalty for fatally stabbing husband is jailed

EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Jones, 54, broke down when she was told her charge of murder had been reduced to 'culpable homicide without intent' for the fatal stabbing of her husband John Jones on the Malaysian island of Langkawi

Brit gran on death row for killing a mum to steal her baby 'running out of time'

Linda Carty is the only Brit on death row in the US after she was convicted of the kidnap and murder of a young mum in Texas in 2001

Mum ‘has sex with pet pit bull before killing her two young children’

Murder trial Lisa Snyder, 37, is facing trial accused of murdering her two children - eight-year-old Conner and four-year-old Brinley at her home in Reading, Pennsylvania

Inside harrowing death row jails where prisoners are executed with no warning

Capital punishment is still used in Japan and prisoners are given so little warning about their executions they don't even have time to say goodbye to their family

Sentenced to death via Zoom - horrifying new justice system for executions

Two men have been sentenced to death - one for murder the other for a drug offence - via Zoom, which human rights groups have described as "abhorrent"

Care home worker slit throats of 19 disabled patients as they slept 'to rid world'

Judge orders death penalty by hanging after Satoshi Uematsu is found guilty of killing 19 disabled people at Tsukui Lily Garden care home in Sagamihara, Japan

Gabriel Fernandez's murderer may never be executed as California launches a moratorium on death penalty

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Isauro Aguirre was sentenced to death after being found guilty of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of intentional murder by torture, but may never face justice

Gruesome reality of death by lethal injection - burned alive from the inside out

The US is one of 58 countries in the world to still carry out the death penalty and lethal injection is the most common form of execution. Last year, 22 people were put to death in America

Family of 4 who vanished without trace was mystery until friend used past tense

Joseph and Summer McStay and their two small children left food on the table, popcorn on the sofa and dogs in the yard in Fallbrook, California then disappeared

Monster mum who murdered her decapitated eight-month-old daughter jailed for 25 years

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Natalya Kolb, 26, appealed in the Supreme Court against the maximum jail sentence for murder after she and family friend Viktar Syarhel killed baby Hanna

Mystery hero who saved orphaned baby during mass shooting identified as homeless man

Authorities have named Lazaro Ponce as the mystery hero who saved a baby and rushed to the aid of the wounded in the Walmart mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22

Brothers sentenced to death in Europe for brutally murdering former teacher

The brothers, aged 19 and 21, face being shot in the back of a head by an executioner as they were handed the sentence in Belarus, the last country in Europe where execution is permitted

Prisoners who killed four inmates to get death penalty see plot backfire

Life sentence Two inmates with double life sentences brutally killed four fellow prisoners in bid to get death penalty, but victims' families objected to execution and they were instead handed more time

Murderer granted stay of execution after more than 20 years on Death Row

Ray Cromartie was due to be executed tonight in Georgia, US, for killing a shopkeeper

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