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Missouri death row inmate executed 18 years after killing cousin, her husband: 'Deeply, overwhelmingly sorry'
Brian Dorsey, 52, apologized for the brutal murder of his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband Ben during his Tuesday execution.
Cruel and unusual: Missouri death row inmate facing 'surgery without anesthesia,' lawyer says
Brian Dorsey, 52, is set to be executed on Tuesday for murdering his cousin and her husband in 2006.
I fell in love with a death row killer when I was just 24
A woman has revealed the moment she fell for a death-row inmate, before spiraling into a life of drugs.
I was just 24 when I fell in love with a death-row killer
A woman has revealed the moment she fell for a death row inmate before spiraling into a life of drugs.
Idaho delays execution of serial killer convicted of 5 murders after 10 botched lethal injection attempts
Idaho on Wednesday delayed the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., after a failed attempt at lethal injection.
Kim Kardashian mistakenly ID’s NYC project manager as death row inmate: ‘I am not getting executed’
The “Kardashians” star intended to share a picture of inmate Ivan Cantu, but accidentally posted a photo of Ivan A. Cantu –– a project manager in New York.
NYC project manager wrongly ID'ed as death row inmate by Kim Kardashian speaks out: 'I am not getting executed'
A New York project manager had to tell his friends he was not being executed on Monday after reality star Kim Kardashian mistakenly identified him as a death row inmate...
Serial killer on death row for decades finally faces execution after winning unlikely support for clemency
Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed by lethal injection for killing a fellow prisoner with a battery-filled sock in 1981.
Death row inmate’s spiritual advisor describes first-ever nitrogen gas execution: ‘Horror show’
A spiritual advisor for executed Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and his family said staffers inside the execution chamber at W.C. Holman Correctional Facility Thursday night could not mask their...
Hitman who killed preacher's wife in 1988 gassed to death in US first after surviving original execution attempt
Death row inmate Kenneth Smith was executed in Alabama Thursday night, becoming the first person in the US to be put to death by nitrogen gas, officials confirmed.
What is nitrogen hypoxia? Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith to be first-ever executed using controversial method
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is set to be executed Thursday using a controversional, untested methode that some experts warn may not be as painless as officials tout.
Death row inmate to be killed with 'inhuman' method vets say is too cruel to use on animals
A death row inmate in Alabama who survived a botched lethal injection is set to be executed Thursday using nitrogen gas — a method the UN called "inhuman" and veterinarians...
UN experts call to halt Alabama prisoner's execution by nitrogen: 'A painful and humiliating death'
Four UN experts have raised alarms about the "untested method," saying it could cause the prisoner "grave suffering."
I taste test the last meals of notorious death-row inmates – here's which one is the best
Since Sept. 1, Josh Slavin, 23, has shared 26 different Instagram Reels featuring his ratings of death row meal requests.
71-year-old man exonerated after 48 years in prison for murder he did not commit
A 71-year-old Oklahoma man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for a murder he did not commit was exonerated by a judge on Wednesday. Former death row inmate Glynn...
'I hope you find peace': Alabama inmate's final words before being executed for killing man during robbery
Casey McWhorter, an Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection.
Florida inmate forgoes last meal before execution
James Phillip Barnes, a Florida death row inmate executed Thursday for the brutal 1988 killing of a nurse he beat with a hammer, forwent the customary last meal hours before he was...
Eerie final words of 'vampire' killer who abducted, killed 6-year-old girl
A Missouri death row inmate who claimed he was a vampire told the family of the six-year-old girl he abducted and killed he was "sorry" before being put to death...
Here's what Alabama death row inmate James Barber had for his final meal
The former handyman's death comes two decades after he was convicted in the fatal beating of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps with a claw hammer.
Florida man convicted in 1984 murder of babysitter while children slept is executed
Duane Owen, 62, was sentenced to death for the March 24, 1984, rape and stabbing attack on Karen Slattery, 14, and for the rape and killing of Georgianna Worden, 38,...