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US court stays Muslim inmate’s execution over denial of imam request

February 7, 2019 World Justice News Admin 0

A federal appeals court has blocked the execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama after the state refused to allow his imam to be present at his death. Domineque Ray, convicted of murdering a 15-year-old […]

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Iran executes businessman dubbed ‘Sultan of Bitumen’

December 22, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

A prominent Iranian businessman, known as the “Sultan of Bitumen”, has been executed for bribery and corruption. Hamidreza Baqeri Darmani was found guilty of forging documents to secure state-backed loans. He then used front companies […]

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Chinese nanny Mo Huanjing executed for arson killings

September 21, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

A Chinese nanny has been executed after deliberately starting a fire that killed a mother and her three children in the eastern city of Hangzhou. Mo Huanjing, 35, was sentenced to death for arson in […]

Doyle Lee Hamm
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Death row inmate in great pain after gory and torturous botched execution

February 27, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

By Sunita Patel-Carstairs, News Reporter A death row inmate was left with a dozen puncture wounds after he was repeatedly jabbed in the legs, ankles and groin during what his lawyer described as a “torturous […]

Eric Scott Branch
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Florida man who killed student screams ‘murderers!’ during execution

February 23, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

A man convicted of raping and killing a college student yelled “murderers!” three times as he was put to death by lethal injection. Eric Scott Branch thrashed about on his stretcher and shouted and screamed […]

Doyle Lee Hamm
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Execution stay for cancer-hit Alabama inmate with damaged veins

February 23, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

The US Supreme Court has reportedly granted a temporary stay of execution to a cancer-stricken death row inmate in the state of Alabama. Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, argued his veins were too damaged from cancer […]

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How US death penalty capital changed its mind

February 11, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

Texas remains the strictest applicant of the US death penalty but its increasing reluctance to put criminals to death reflects a national trend. Kent Whitaker supported the death penalty until his son, who arranged for […]

John Battaglia
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Texas man executed for killing his two daughters

February 1, 2018 World Justice News Admin 0

A man who shot and killed his two daughters in 2001 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening. John Battaglia, 62, called the girls’ mother before murdering his six and nine-year-old daughters in his Dallas […]

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Florida inmate Mark Asay executed by experimental injection

August 24, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

A white supremacist convicted of racially motivated murders three decades ago in Florida has been executed by lethal injection.  Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a […]

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‘Houdini of death row’ who escaped seven execution dates finally killed for murdering lover’s husband

May 26, 2017 WJN Reporter 0

By Tom Powell UPDATE A man known as the “Houdini” of death row for avoiding seven execution dates through legal challenges has finally been put to death for a 1982 murder. Tommy Arthur, 75, was […]

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