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Washington (AFP) - A Missouri man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm Central Time (2311 GMT) following lethal injection for the 2006 murders of Sarah Bonnie, 25, and her husband Ben Bonnie, 28, in New Bloomfield, Missouri. Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for the night to protect him from drug dealers who were trying to collect on a debt. The Bonnies' four-year-old daughter, who was in the hous...
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Washington (AFP) - A man convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago was executed by lethal injection in the western US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, officials said. Michael Smith, 41, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the Department of Corrections officials said in a statement. It said the execution process began at 10:09 am Central Time (1509 GMT) and Smith was pronounced dead 11 minutes later. A "spiritual advisor" was present in the execution chamber at the time. Smith was convicted in 2003 of the separate 2002 murders in Oklahoma City of Ja...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former girlfriend was put to death Wednesday, in the southern US state's first execution in more than four years. Willie Pye, 59, was executed by lethal injection at 11:03 pm (0303 GMT Thursday) at a prison in Jackson, Georgia. The US Supreme Court and State Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a last-minute bid for clemency by Pye. In arguing for clemency, Pye's attorneys said he is intellectually disabled -- with an IQ of 68 -- and experienced a traumatic childhood of "profound poverty, neglect, constant viol...
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The nationwide mass protests sparked by the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in September 2022 have been followed by the second-highest number of executions in the country in more than 20 years, according to a recent report. The 2023 annual report on the death penalty in Iran by the NGO Iran Human Rights found that there were a total of 834 executions last year in the country, representing a 43% increase from 2022. Only 15% of these executions were announced by authorities, while 85% were not reported by official sources. Eight protesters were among the executed last year, six of whom were a...
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Washington (AFP) - A Texas man is to be executed Wednesday for a double murder he insists he did not commit, in a case that has drawn the attention of the Catholic Church and celebrities Kim Kardashian and Martin Sheen. Ivan Cantu, 50, who was convicted of the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's fiancee, is one of two inmates scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in the United States on Wednesday. The other, convicted serial killer Thomas Creech, 73, is to be executed in Idaho. Creech has been on Death Row for nearly 50 years for killing another inmate. Cantu's case has draw...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Friday it was "deeply troubled" by the first-ever execution in the United States using nitrogen gas, an untested method which also drew condemnation from the United Nations and European Union. The southern state of Alabama put Kenneth Smith, a 58-year-old convicted murderer, to death on Thursday by pumping nitrogen gas into a facemask, causing him to suffocate. "The use of nitrogen gas -- it is troubling to us," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. "We are deeply troubled by it." Recent executions in the United States have been carr...
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Washington (AFP) - The first execution using nitrogen gas in the United States has put the spotlight on the country's use of capital punishment. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was put to death in the southern state of Alabama on Thursday. Executions in the United States are generally carried out by lethal injection, but Smith was the first person to be executed using nitrogen gas. Here are key facts about the death penalty in the United States: Number of US executions decliningThere were 24 executions in the United States in 2023, six more than in 2022. While mo...
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Washington (AFP) - A convicted murderer is scheduled to be executed in the southern US state of Alabama this week using nitrogen gas, a novel method that the United Nations has likened to "torture." Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, has been on Death Row for more than three decades after being convicted in 1989 of a murder-for-hire. Smith is to be put to death at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, during a 30-hour window beginning at 1:00 am Eastern Time (0600 GMT) on Thursday. He is to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method which has not been used before in the United States. There were 24 executio...
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Washington (AFP) - An Oklahoma man convicted of a double murder was put to death by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, the 24th and final execution to be carried out in the United States this year. Phillip Hancock, 59, was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Corrections said. He had been sentenced to death for the April 2001 murders of Robert Jett and James Lynch, members of a biker gang. Though the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board had recommended that Hancock -- who claimed he had acted in self-defense --...
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Washington (AFP) - Two convicted murderers were executed by lethal injection in the United States on Thursday, one in Alabama and one in Texas. Casey McWhorter, 49, was put to death at a prison in Atmore, Alabama, for the 1993 murder of Edward Williams, who was shot to death during a robbery. McWhorter had just turned 18 years old at the time of the crime. His two accomplices, one of whom was the son of the murdered man, were aged 16 and 15 and were spared the death sentence because they were juveniles. McWhorter "was pronounced deceased by a physician at 6:56 pm," the Alabama Department of Co...
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