# Death Penalty

Arkansas execution spree ends after another man is put to death

The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.

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Apr 28th 2017, 7:04 AM

# sentenced to death

US state of Arkansas executes two prisoners in one night

This is the first time in 17 years in the US that a state has executed two people in the space of 24 hours.

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Apr 25th 2017, 6:45 AM

# controversial drug

Arkansas rushes to execute prisoners this week - before lethal drugs expire

The US state’s stock of a controversial sedative will expire at the end of the month.

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Apr 24th 2017, 7:26 AM

Supreme Court blocks last-minute attempt by Arkansas to execute murderer

Justices declined an appeal from the state’s attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis.

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Apr 18th 2017, 10:37 AM

# Death Row

State of Arkansas to fight for permission to go ahead with 8 executions in 11 days

A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.

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Apr 17th 2017, 12:46 PM

# Arkansas

Death row inmates file lawsuit to prevent executions of eight men in 10 days

Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.

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Mar 29th 2017, 7:50 AM

US state plans to put eight men to death over 10-day period

Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.

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Mar 25th 2017, 5:00 PM

'If you have the death penalty, you can't be in the EU' - The simple message to Turkey

Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue

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Mar 19th 2017, 1:34 PM

# Texas

Court orders new trial for death row inmate who psychologist said was more dangerous because he is black

“Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.”

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Feb 23rd 2017, 9:29 AM

'Go straight to hell': Victims' families confront mass murderer Dylann Roof

Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.

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Jan 11th 2017, 10:36 PM

# hate crime

White supremacist Dylann Roof sentenced to death for killing nine black churchgoers

The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.

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Jan 10th 2017, 10:02 PM

# getting rid of the gallows

Ohio obtains hundreds of vials of lethal injection drugs so executions can continue

Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.

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Jan 9th 2017, 10:35 PM

# no remorse

'There's nothing wrong with me psychologically': Mass killer Dylann Roof refuses to apologise

Roof shot dead nine people in a church in South Carolina in 2015.

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Jan 4th 2017, 9:48 PM

# 1986 state paprs

Ireland's death penalty was a 'quaint throwback' but not everyone wanted to get rid of it

Thirty years ago, there were some political considerations.

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Jan 1st 2017, 8:00 AM

30 years ago most Irish people wanted garda killers to be executed

The death penalty wasn’t abolished in Ireland until 1990.

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Dec 31st 2016, 9:45 PM

Crime, murder and the end of the Civil War: The story of the first man hanged by the Irish Free State

Author Colm Wallace tells the story of soldier-turned-criminal William Downes.

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Dec 26th 2016, 10:00 PM

# Ohio

Woman says she smothered three sons as she "didn't want to see them suffer"

Brittany Pilkington’s defence are attempting to have her police confession excluded by the court.

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Oct 20th 2016, 10:03 PM

# Getaway car

Texas plans to execute a man who never killed anyone

Jeffrey Woods is said to be severely mentally disabled and have an IQ of a child.

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Aug 19th 2016, 6:05 AM

'Hanging is too mild for such a savage': The story of the youngest man executed by the Irish State

William O’Neill was executed four days after Christmas, on the 29 December 1927. He was 19 years old.

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Jun 11th 2016, 10:00 PM

# Human Rights

'1,000 days have felt like 1,000 years' - Irish student still in Egyptian prison

Ibrahim Halawa’s trial is expected to take place at the end of June, nearly three years after he was imprisoned.

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May 13th 2016, 6:05 AM

Man with reading age of nine-year-old to be executed in Georgia tonight

47-year-old Kenneth Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his neighbour.

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Apr 12th 2016, 4:23 PM

50% more people were executed last year than in 2014

Amnesty International has said that 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries last year.

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Apr 6th 2016, 9:49 AM

The man who lived: How one convicted murderer escaped Ireland's death penalty

Patrick Aylward, 63, was accused of burning a young child to death.

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Mar 28th 2016, 9:45 PM

Convicted murderer Romell Broom survived one execution but he now faces a second

Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.

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Mar 16th 2016, 9:55 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Are you in favour of the death penalty?

A man who murdered five people has been executed in Texas – do you agree with the death penalty?

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Mar 10th 2016, 8:45 AM

Georgia has just executed its oldest death row inmate

Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.

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Feb 3rd 2016, 9:12 AM

# mark chelgren

US politician has a plan for immigrant criminals who re-enter illegally: Execute them

One local political leader called the comments “vile, hateful and downright deplorable.”

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Dec 2nd 2015, 9:23 PM

# Georgia

Man on death row barred from having a six-pack of beer with his last meal

“His request was declined as alcohol is a contraband item…”

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Nov 18th 2015, 10:43 PM

# stay of execution

Execution postponed after the wrong lethal injection drug was sent to prison

Richard Glossip claims he’s innocent.

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Oct 1st 2015, 7:25 AM

The Pope brought up some controversial topics with US politicians today

He gave his views on the death penalty and immigration, amongst other issues.

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Sep 24th 2015, 6:42 PM

Pakistan wants to hang a paraplegic wheelchair user

Abdul Basit has been given a last-minute reprieve after appeals by Human Rights groups.

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Sep 22nd 2015, 7:21 AM

# dead man walking

This man's execution has been put on hold at the last minute as new evidence emerges

The court said it granted the request “in order for this court to give fair consideration” to his claims.

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Sep 16th 2015, 7:58 PM

# condemned

Boston bomber says sorry for the first time before being formally sentenced to death

21 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive his formal death sentence later today.

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Jun 24th 2015, 10:40 PM

"He can rot in hell" - Man who killed girlfriend and her two-year-old with a butcher knife is executed

Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.

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Jun 10th 2015, 8:08 AM

# Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Timeline: How police caught the Boston bombers

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penalty over the killings.

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May 15th 2015, 10:00 PM

# war on terrier

Australia tells Johnny Depp's dogs to "b***er off" or be euthanised

Depp brought them into the country without declaring them to quarantine officials.

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May 14th 2015, 8:53 PM

Nun portrayed in Dead Man Walking movie says Boston bomber is remorseful

A jury will decide if he should be sentenced to death or life without parole.

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May 12th 2015, 8:44 AM