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US Man Executed By Firing Squad, Second Such Execution In 15 Years
South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi chose the firing squad.
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Japan's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Awarded $1.4 Million
A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday.
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Louisiana Issues 1st Nitrogen Gas Execution For Death Row Killer Jessie Hoffman
Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday.
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Kim Kardashian Sued After Mistakenly Identifying US Man As Death Row Inmate In Instagram Post
Kardashian, a 44-year-old aspiring lawyer, posted about the death penalty sentence of convicted murderer Ivan Cantu.
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Acquitted Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Seeks $1.3 Million From Japan
Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent last year of a 1966 quadruple murder for which he spent over four decades in confinement, mostly on death row.
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Japan's 'Black Widow' Death Row Inmate, Chisako Kakehi, Dies
A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78.
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Joe Biden Commutes Death Sentences Of 37 Federal Inmates Ahead Of Christmas
US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump who oversaw a sweeping number of lethal injections during his first term.
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700 Bangladeshi Terrorists, Death Row Convicts Still On Run After Jailbreak
Around 700 Bangladeshi prison inmates were still on the run after mass jailbreaks over the summer during the student-led revolution that ousted autocratic ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina, authorities said Wednesday.
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6th US Inmate Execution: Texas Man Put To Death For Murder Of Twins In 1989
A Texas man was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening for the murders of teenage twin sisters, prison officials said, the sixth death row inmate to be executed in the United States in the past 12 days.
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Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Now A Free Man
A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six decades-long chapter.
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Author John Grisham Joins Bid To Save Man On Death Row For Daughter's Death
Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on shaken baby syndrome.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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Sarabjit Singh: He Spent 22 Years In Pak Jail, Then Inmates Killed Him
Sarabjit Singh, who was on death row, spent 22 years in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail after being convicted of espionage and terrorism before an attack by inmates killed him in 2013.
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Death Row In India Hits 20-Year High, Despite Lower Appeal Court Confirmations: Report
According to data, there were 541 and 490 inmates on death row at the end of 2022 and 2021, respectively, and 167 and 146 death sentences were awarded in 2022 and 2021.
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US Man, On Death Row For Killing His Family, Dug Out Own Eyes, Swallowed One
Attorneys for a death row inmate who gouged out his own eyes after murdering his wife, son and stepdaughter in Texas asked authorities on Wednesday for clemency because he is mentally ill.
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US Man Executed By Firing Squad, Second Such Execution In 15 Years
South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi chose the firing squad.
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Japan's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Awarded $1.4 Million
A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday.
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Louisiana Issues 1st Nitrogen Gas Execution For Death Row Killer Jessie Hoffman
Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday.
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Kim Kardashian Sued After Mistakenly Identifying US Man As Death Row Inmate In Instagram Post
Kardashian, a 44-year-old aspiring lawyer, posted about the death penalty sentence of convicted murderer Ivan Cantu.
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Acquitted Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Seeks $1.3 Million From Japan
Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent last year of a 1966 quadruple murder for which he spent over four decades in confinement, mostly on death row.
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Japan's 'Black Widow' Death Row Inmate, Chisako Kakehi, Dies
A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78.
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Joe Biden Commutes Death Sentences Of 37 Federal Inmates Ahead Of Christmas
US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump who oversaw a sweeping number of lethal injections during his first term.
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700 Bangladeshi Terrorists, Death Row Convicts Still On Run After Jailbreak
Around 700 Bangladeshi prison inmates were still on the run after mass jailbreaks over the summer during the student-led revolution that ousted autocratic ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina, authorities said Wednesday.
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6th US Inmate Execution: Texas Man Put To Death For Murder Of Twins In 1989
A Texas man was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening for the murders of teenage twin sisters, prison officials said, the sixth death row inmate to be executed in the United States in the past 12 days.
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Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Now A Free Man
A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six decades-long chapter.
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Author John Grisham Joins Bid To Save Man On Death Row For Daughter's Death
Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on shaken baby syndrome.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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Sarabjit Singh: He Spent 22 Years In Pak Jail, Then Inmates Killed Him
Sarabjit Singh, who was on death row, spent 22 years in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail after being convicted of espionage and terrorism before an attack by inmates killed him in 2013.
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Death Row In India Hits 20-Year High, Despite Lower Appeal Court Confirmations: Report
According to data, there were 541 and 490 inmates on death row at the end of 2022 and 2021, respectively, and 167 and 146 death sentences were awarded in 2022 and 2021.
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US Man, On Death Row For Killing His Family, Dug Out Own Eyes, Swallowed One
Attorneys for a death row inmate who gouged out his own eyes after murdering his wife, son and stepdaughter in Texas asked authorities on Wednesday for clemency because he is mentally ill.
