# execution - Friday 12 April, 2019
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
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# execution - Thursday 6 December, 2018
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
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# execution - Friday 10 August, 2018
It is the state’s first execution in nearly a decade.
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# execution - Friday 6 July, 2018
The sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
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# execution - Thursday 28 June, 2018
Danny Bible had murdered at least four people over a span of two decades.
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# execution - Thursday 12 April, 2018
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
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# execution - Friday 23 February, 2018
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
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# execution - Thursday 19 October, 2017
Authorities believe Anthony Shore would have left a note to try to exonerate another death row inmate of murder.
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# execution - Friday 25 August, 2017
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
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# execution - Friday 28 July, 2017
A last minute appeal claimed that TaiChin Preyor’s trial lawyer had insufficient familiarity with Texan law in order to defend him adequately.
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# execution - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
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# execution - Friday 26 May, 2017
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
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# execution - Saturday 29 April, 2017
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
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# execution - Saturday 15 April, 2017
The executions have been blocked on foot of a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment”.
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# execution - Monday 9 January, 2017
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
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# execution - Saturday 31 December, 2016
The death penalty wasn’t abolished in Ireland until 1990.
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# execution - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
Since he defected, state media has accused him of embezzlement, rape and spying.
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# execution - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
Such action against a member of the royal family is extremely rare in the middle eastern state.
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# execution - Thursday 6 October, 2016
He was the 143rd death row inmate to “volunteer” for execution since 1977.
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# execution - Saturday 27 August, 2016
One of the boys is identified as being British.
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# execution - Saturday 20 August, 2016
Jeffrey Woods is said to be severely mentally disabled and have an IQ of a child.
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# execution - Sunday 7 August, 2016
Shahram Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States.
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# execution - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
A commemoration was held for Casement this morning in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
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# execution - Saturday 14 May, 2016
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
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# execution - Sunday 24 April, 2016
Audio of a 911 call has been released by investigators.
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# execution - Tuesday 12 April, 2016
47-year-old Kenneth Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his neighbour.
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# execution - Wednesday 30 March, 2016
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
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# execution - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
The execution of 1916 leader James Connolly… in cake form.
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# execution - Thursday 10 March, 2016
A man who murdered five people has been executed in Texas – do you agree with the death penalty?
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# execution - Wednesday 10 February, 2016
Reports suggest that the North Korean army’s chief of staff Ri Yong-Gil was executed earlier this month.
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# execution - Monday 1 February, 2016
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
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# execution - Thursday 21 January, 2016
Pope Francis was said to have been following the case.
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# execution - Friday 8 January, 2016
Hundreds of people are believed to have witnessed the killing.
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# execution - Thursday 19 November, 2015
Raphael Holiday killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two half-sisters in Texas.
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Photos of two bodies which appeared to be those of the men featured in the English-language magazine Dabiq.
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# execution - Tuesday 27 October, 2015
IS has yet to inform local residents who the executed individuals were or why they had been killed.
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# execution - Wednesday 30 September, 2015
Kelly Gissendaner was sentenced to death after being found guilty of conspiring to murder her husband in 1997.
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# execution - Thursday 17 September, 2015
Kent was one of 16 people executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising. He will be buried with full state honours in his hometown of Castlelyons tomorrow.
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# execution - Wednesday 2 September, 2015
His victim was just 15 years old when she was murdered.
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# execution - Thursday 13 August, 2015
Thomas Kent was one of 16 people executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising.
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