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		<title>Florida sets execution date for gunman in home invasion robbery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is scheduled to be put to death in December under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions. Frank Athen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; South Carolina&#8217;s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims. Stephen Bryant, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Friday by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tennessee inmate declines to choose execution method after previously opting for electric chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Death row inmate declines to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8212; Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Divided Oklahoma board recommends clemency for man scheduled for lethal injection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be executed next week for the 2001 stabbing death of a man during a botched robbery. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt must now consider whether to commute the death sentence of Tremane Wood, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Luigi Mangione&#8217;s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] NEW YORK &#8212; NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. In papers filed in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tennessee set to execute only woman on state&#8217;s death row. Here&#8217;s what to know.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] If Christa Gail Pike&#8217;s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike&#8217;s attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Carolina prosecutor seeks death penalty in murder case after Biden reduced sentence to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; A local prosecutor in South Carolina said Tuesday he will seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing two bank employees in a robbery was commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden at the end of his term. Brandon Council, 40, did not appear [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination case faces court hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] PROVO, Utah &#8212; The 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk will have a court hearing Monday where he and his newly appointed legal counsel will decide whether they want a preliminary hearing where the judge will determine if there is enough evidence against him to go forward with a trial. Prosecutors have charged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Firing squad execution of prisoner with dementia blocked by Utah Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate&#8217;s upcoming execution, after the inmate&#8217;s attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client&#8217;s worsening dementia should spare him from capital punishment. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] NEW YORK &#8212; Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk, has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate. As evidence of Mangione&#8217;s growing influence, prosecutors cited the last month&#8217;s deadly mass shooting at the National Football League headquarters. The prosecution outlined the threat in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judge orders new trial for Alabama man who has been on death row for 31 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8212; A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man&#8217;s DNA on the victim&#8217;s body. Chief U.S. District Judge Emily C. Marks last week ruled that Christopher Barbour must get a new trial. Barbour, now 56, was convicted of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Federal authorities in the United States revealed Tuesday that they will not seek the death penalty against three reputed Mexican drug cartel leaders, including an alleged former partner of the infamous “El Chapo” and the man accused of orchestrating the killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Court filings showed decisions handed down in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect. Experts say it marked the first time a man has been put to death with a working heart device in his chest. Byron Black was executed after a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 03:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled late Friday. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker. Despite his recent cognitive decline, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] ATLANTA &#8212; The fact that the COVID-19 vaccine is not available for newborn babies is shielding a group of prisoners on Georgia&#8217;s death row from execution. Executions in Georgia were halted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state attorney general&#8217;s office entered into an agreement with lawyers for people on death row to set [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 05:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial. Justices affirmed the ruling of a lower court judge who had ordered a new trial for Douglas Stewart Carter after finding issues [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8212; An Alabama man is scheduled to be executed Thursday after dropping his appeals, saying he&#8217;s guilty of raping and murdering a woman in 2010 and he doesn&#8217;t want to keep “wasting everybody&#8217;s time” and money. James Osgood, 55, will be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at William Holman [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] EL PASO, Texas &#8212; The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — is expected to accept a plea deal in a state court on Monday to avoid the death penalty. Patrick Crusius has acknowledged he targeted Hispanics [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] ANGOLA, La. &#8212; Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas man whose execution was halted in shaken baby case is again stopped from testifying</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas &#8212; A second attempt by Texas lawmakers to bring a man on death row to the state Capitol over doubts that he killed his 2-year-old daughter failed again Friday, dimming the likelihood of Robert Roberson testifying publicly after a last-minute subpoena halted his execution. Roberson, who had been scheduled to be die [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] From public hangings in the town square to lethal injections witnessed by journalists, executions historically have mostly been carried out with at least some public scrutiny. That was not the case in Indiana early Wednesday, when state prison officials announced they had executed Joseph Corcoran without any independent witnesses present. The unusual secrecy is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] HOUSTON &#8212; A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. Roberson has long proclaimed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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