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Inside the 8 excruciating botched attempts to execute 73-year-old serial killer
73-year-old killer Thomas Creech spent nearly an hour strapped on a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical members poked and probbed his body trying to find a vein to end his life
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Death row inmate freed after 30 years as new evidence proves wrongful conviction
A Philadelphia inmate was exonerated after serving 30 years on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit — new evidence was presented that all but proved his innocence
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Man to be executed 30 years after kidnapping and shooting dead ex-girlfriend
A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March by lethal injection in what would be Georgia's first execution in more than four years
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Kim Kardashian pays tribute to death row inmate executed by lethal injection
Kim Kardashian wrote to her millions of followers on Instagram saying that she believed Ivan Cantu was "an innocent man" following his execution by lethal injection in Texas
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Death row killer Ivan Cantu, backed by Kim Kardashian, executed in Texas
Death row killer Ivan Cantu, who was convicted in 2001 for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend in Texas, was put to death on Wednesday despite pushes from Kim Kardashian to stay the execution
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Death row killer's execution abandoned as lethal injection bid fails to kill him
The execution of convicted serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech was halted in Idaho after the medical team couldn't locate a vein for an IV to administer the lethal drugs
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Doctor explains sick thing that happens to the body in electric chair executions
WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body
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Doctor shares sick way you die ‘8 out of 10 times’ during injection execution
Dr Joel Zivot from Emory University School of Medicine spoke to The Mirror and explained what actually happens to the body during a lethal injection death including "drowning in your own blood"
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Cruel couple executed after throwing two toddlers off 15th-floor balcony
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen have both been executed after two children were pushed to their deaths off a 15th-floor balcony in southwest China's Chongqing.
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'I watched killer's eyes bulge as he took 22 minutes to die in gas chamber'
The spiritual advisor for convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith accompanied him into the chamber, where he witnessed what he called 'the most horrific thing' he'd ever seen done to another human
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Executioner behind nitrogen gas killing once fired for 'merciless' beating
Terry Raybon, warden of William C. Holman Correctional Facility, oversaw the death of Kenneth Smith despite being sacked following a scathing report from the Alabama Department of Public Safety
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Horrified wife screamed as killer convulsed during execution with new gas method
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8.25pm at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation
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Death row killer's victim's son forgives the murderer after gas death
Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen
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Death row killer executed with toxic gas after surviving lethal injection
Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen
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Reverend fears he'll die as he sits by death row killer for first gas execution
Kenneth Eugene Smith will become the first-ever American to be executed by toxic nitrogen gas in Alabama - but Rev Dr Jeff Hood fears he will die too as he sits by his side as his spiritual advisor
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Death Row killer to be executed 'like animal with method rejected by vets'
Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates
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All we know about Death row con facing 'human experiment' second execution
Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence
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Harrowing way nitrogen gas kills as Death Row con faces controversial execution
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is scheduled for execution in a 30-hour window starting just after midnight on Thursday, January 25, for his part in a murder-for-hire plot of a pastor's wife
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Death Row killer left haunted by nightmares after surviving first execution
Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022
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Man facing death penalty for 'murder and rape' of ex-girlfriend, 18, at her home
Chace Cook, 20, is facing the death penalty for the alleged murder and rape of his ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Madeline Bills, who was found dead in her bedroom in April 2023
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What Christmas is like for criminals on death row including their festive dinner
For more than 2,000 people their Christmas will be spent behind bars awaiting death, but what is Christmas like on death row? Inmates past and present have shared their experiences
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Husband of child-killer could face death penalty if convicted of murder
Chad Daybell will soon face trial for the murder of his two step-children after their mother was sentenced to life in prison for the same killings in July. Despite efforts, he may now face the death penalty
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Killer's heartless 'Grim Reaper' final words before execution for teens' deaths
The killer, Robert Alton Harris, was executed in 1992 after spending 13 years on Death Row, and the last words he uttered before he died were chilling — a grim poem he concocted
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Death penalty ‘more likely’ for dodgy-looking men with harsher sentences
A new study from the journal Psychological Science shows facial appearances are used to make sentencing decisions - with a dishonest look counting against criminals
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Death row mom who killed kids' chilling last words before execution
Christina Marie Riggs was executed in Arkansas for the murder of her children who the nurse injected with potassium chloride before smothering them and then attempting to take her own life
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