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A South Carolina inmate convicted of killing a state trooper more than 25 years ago cannot be executed due to a mental illness that has him believing he is immortal, a judge ruled. John Richard Wood, ...

Raymond Eugene Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and arson in the 2007 deaths of Brooke Whitaker and her seven-month-old daughter, Kya Whitaker in Tulsa Oklahoma Department of Corrections; ...

TULSA, Okla. — Raymond Johnson was executed Thursday after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously rejected his request for clemency for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her infant ...

A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982 for the killing of a retired 77-year-old college ...

Oklahoma executed a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her baby almost two decades ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was ...

A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for ...

Edward Busby Jr. was executed in Texas, becoming the 600th person put to death in the state since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. Busby was condemned for the 2004 suffocation death ...

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Texas to carry out its 600th execution on Thursday, May 14. Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

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