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By Chris LEFKOW Washington (AFP) - L'exécution d'un condamné à mort américain de 73 ans a été interrompue in extremis mercredi dans l'Idaho, faute d'avoir pu lui administrer la solution mortelle dans le délai légal, a annoncé l'administration pénitentiaire de cet Etat du Nord-Ouest. La dernière exécution manquée pour des raisons similaires était celle de Kenneth Smith en Alabama (sud-est) le 17 novembre 2022. Définitivement condamné à la peine capitale en 1996 pour le meurtre d'une femme commandité par son mari, il a finalement été exécuté le 25 janvier par inhalation d'azote, une première mon...
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By Selim SAHEB ETTABA Washington (AFP) - "Torture", exécution "particulièrement cruelle" : la mise à mort par l'Etat américain de l'Alabama d'un condamné par inhalation d'azote, une première mondiale, a provoqué l'indignation vendredi de l'ONU et de l'Union européenne, la Maison Blanche exprimant son trouble "profond". Kenneth Eugene Smith, définitivement condamné à mort en 1996 pour le meurtre d'une femme commandité par son mari, est décédé jeudi au pénitencier d'Atmore, dans l'Alabama (sud-est des Etats-Unis), 29 minutes après le début de l'exécution, selon un communiqué du procureur général...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear the case of an Oklahoma man convicted of murder, whose story has sparked appeals for clemency from Pope Francis and Hollywood stars. Richard Glossip, 60, had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on May 18, but the nation's highest court put his execution on hold. The stay came after the Oklahoma attorney general, a Republican, asked the court, in an unusual move, to halt the execution, citing questions about the fairness of his trial. Following the Supreme Court's Monday announcement that it would hear Glossip's app...
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Washington (AFP) - La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a accepté lundi de se saisir du recours d'un condamné, dans le couloir de la mort depuis plus de 25 ans et dont le sort a suscité une campagne de soutien allant du pape à des stars de Hollywood. La Cour avait déjà accordé en mai un sursis à l'exécution de Richard Glossip, 60 ans, prévue initialement le 18 mai en Oklahoma (centre). Circonstance inhabituelle, le procureur général de cet Etat conservateur avait soutenu cette demande de sursis, reconnaissant des problèmes dans le témoignage qui avait emporté sa condamnation. Un des avocats du conda...
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Miami (AFP) - The US state of Florida on Wednesday executed a man known as "the ninja killer," more than three decades after a split jury handed him a death sentence for the murder of a couple in 1989. Louis Gaskin, 56, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:15 pm (2215 GMT), the Florida Department of Corrections said in a statement. Gaskin's sentence is one of three executions approved so far this year by the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. Gaskin earned his nickname from the media because he wore all black during the deadly burglary on December 20, 1989. Armed with a rifle, h...
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Houston (AFP) - An American man convicted of a quadruple murder linked to drug trafficking more than 30 years ago was executed in Texas on Thursday. Arthur Brown Jr, 52, received a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the city of Huntsville, in the eastern part of the vast southern US state, the state prisons board said. This made Brown the fifth death row inmate to be executed in the conservative state and the ninth nationwide since the beginning of the year. In his final statement as released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Brown insisted he was treated unfairly o...
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Washington (AFP) - Texas executed on Tuesday a prisoner convicted of murdering his wife and her daughter. Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, in the eastern part of the vast southern US state, and was pronounced dead at 7:07 pm (0107 GMT) on Wednesday. He was sentenced to death in 2010 for having stabbed his wife and drowned her six-year-old daughter in a bathtub in Dallas the year before. The morning of the murders, his wife had sent Green a letter saying she wanted to break up. He then wrote back that he planned to "take five lives" in ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed a man sentenced to death for a triple murder despite claims by his lawyers that his trial was tainted by racial bias. John Balentine, a 54-year-old African American, received a lethal injection, nearly 25 years after he shot three white teenagers as they slept. Balentine was pronounced dead at 6:36 pm local time (0036 GMT Thursday) in the city of Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. It said Balentine's last statement was: "Yes, ma'am, I want to thank y'all. I love y'all for supporting me. I want to apologize ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US state of Missouri on Tuesday executed a man for the 2004 killing of his girlfriend and her three children, a crime that he denied until his death. Leonard Taylor, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:16 pm local time (0016 GMT) after receiving a lethal injection in the Potosi penitentiary in the American Midwest. Taylor was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murders of Angela Rowe and her three children, aged 10, six and five. They were found dead, each with a bullet in the head, in their house on December 3, 2004. According to the forensic doctors, they had been dead for sev...
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Washington (AFP) - A former US police officer convicted of hiring the hitman who killed his wife almost 30 years ago was executed Tuesday after a last minute legal battle, Texas authorities said. Robert Fratta, 65, had been scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, but a Texas judge's ruling threw the planned lethal injection into doubt for several hours. After an emergency hearing Tuesday morning, District Judge Catherine Mauzy ruled that officials could not use the intended drug because it was "probably illegal to possess or administer because it is more likely than not expired." Fratta ...
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