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Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam had been on death row for more than a decade after being convicted of trafficking 1.5oz of heroin into the city state.
Carl Buntion (78) shot and killed a police officer in 1990.
The state had previously had the second highest number of executions in the US.
Lisa Montgomery killed a pregnant woman in order to steal her foetus in 2004.
Walter Barton was convicted of murder at a fifth trial in 2006 but maintained his innocence.
The court ruled that the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency.
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
The executions will be carried out by a single lethal injection.
The three men have 30 days to appeal the sentence.
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
The US state wants to do it before its access to an execution drug is stopped.
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
Thirty years ago, there were some political considerations.
Author Colm Wallace tells the story of soldier-turned-criminal William Downes.
Commercial rates and social housing costs rise as parties call for a meeting with Minister Simon Coveney.
And prices are rising across the country.
William O’Neill was executed four days after Christmas, on the 29 December 1927. He was 19 years old.
He says citizens must learn to fear the law.
Patrick Aylward, 63, was accused of burning a young child to death.
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
Babak Zanjani denied charges of money laundering.
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
Raphael Holiday killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two half-sisters in Texas.
Abdul Basit has been given a last-minute reprieve after appeals by Human Rights groups.
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
The pair’s sentencing judge allegedly asked for huge bribes in return for lighter penalties.
Two Australian citizens are currently facing this situation in Indonesia.
Selection conventions begin this week with lots to look out for in the capital alone.
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
King Salman took office on 23 January.
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
Better policing, an outreach team and tackling repeat offenders, mostly.
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
The final executions – two men in separate gallows at 8am on 13 August 1964.
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
Federal death penalty cases are relatively rare in the United States, and are often reserved for the most heinous and notorious crimes.
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