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Sunday 25 October 2020
The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.
Nicholas Sutton’s defenders said he had been a model prisoner for more than 30 years.
Wei Wei was executed in a detention centre in Fukuoka.
Rodney Reed (51) was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites.
63-year-old Charles Rhines was put to death by lethal injection.
In his last words, Mark Soliz apologised “for the grief and the pain that I caused”.
Gary Ray Bowles was captured in 1994.
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
It is the state’s first execution in nearly a decade.
The sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
Danny Bible had murdered at least four people over a span of two decades.
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
Authorities believe Anthony Shore would have left a note to try to exonerate another death row inmate of murder.
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
A last minute appeal claimed that TaiChin Preyor’s trial lawyer had insufficient familiarity with Texan law in order to defend him adequately.
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
The executions have been blocked on foot of a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment”.
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
The death penalty wasn’t abolished in Ireland until 1990.
Since he defected, state media has accused him of embezzlement, rape and spying.
Such action against a member of the royal family is extremely rare in the middle eastern state.
He was the 143rd death row inmate to “volunteer” for execution since 1977.
One of the boys is identified as being British.
Jeffrey Woods is said to be severely mentally disabled and have an IQ of a child.
Shahram Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States.
A commemoration was held for Casement this morning in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
Audio of a 911 call has been released by investigators.
47-year-old Kenneth Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his neighbour.
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
The execution of 1916 leader James Connolly… in cake form.
A man who murdered five people has been executed in Texas – do you agree with the death penalty?
Reports suggest that the North Korean army’s chief of staff Ri Yong-Gil was executed earlier this month.
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
Pope Francis was said to have been following the case.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
A couple of afternoon showers
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Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
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Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
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Min: 6 °C
