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A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

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James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed ...

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Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after recommendations from the Department of ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

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