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NewsMay 21, 2026Read →

Arizona Death Row Inmate Offers Chilling Final Words Before Execution

A man convicted of burning a Phoenix resident to death in a horrific 2002 apartment attack was executed Wednesday in Arizona, ending a case that prosecutors said left one victim dead and another permanently scarred…

NewsJan 12, 2024Read →

Judge OKs New Execution Method for Alabama Inmate, Says He’s ‘Not Guaranteed a Painless Death’

A federal judge has given the green light to the execution of a convicted contract killer who would be the first person killed by nitrogen hypoxia. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was convicted in a 1988 murder in which he…

NewsFeb 5, 2023Read →

State Executing Cop Killer with Victim’s Family Just Feet Away, Then He Addresses Them: ‘I Hope…’

A 43-year-old man convicted in the 2007 killing of a Dallas police officer was executed on Wednesday after telling the prison warden, “I’m ready to ride.” Wesley Ruiz, 43, died by lethal injection at the state prison in…

NewsJan 6, 2023Read →

Horror: What One Surviving Roommate of Slain Idaho Students Saw After Opening Door During Attack

A probable cause affidavit outlining charges against Bryan Kohberger reveals disturbing new details about the Idaho quadruple homicide he’s accused of. The document has been unsealed Thursday following Kohberger’s…

NewsJun 5, 2022Read →

Judge Gets Unheard of Request from Death Row Inmate: Please Don't Execute Me – I Have a Horrible Backache

An Arizona judge denied a request to delay the execution of a prisoner who argued that the state’s death penalty procedures would violate his rights by subjecting him to severe pain. Frank Atwood is facing the death…

OpinionApr 10, 2022Read →

Man Shot Store Clerk with His Own Gun, Now He Could Become the First Execution of State's New Firing Squad

South Carolina’s new firing squad facilities are ready to send the first death row inmate to be executed in a decade to meet his maker should he opt for it as his preferred manner of death. The state Supreme Court has…

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