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ATMORE, Alabama — Kenneth Eugene Smith’s death did not come easily, and it did not come quietly. The 58-year-old convicted murderer became the first person in American history executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday night, a method that Alabama officials had touted as humane but which witnesses described as a harrowing spectacle of violent thrashing, … Read more

The condemned man sits in a cage of concrete and steel, a portrait of Princess Diana taped to the wall above his head, a cat named Mama curled at his feet. Frederick Bear, inmate 206 on Indiana’s death row, is a study in contradictions: a self-confessed thief who began stealing matchbox cars in kindergarten and … Read more

For thirty-five years, the small town of Salisbury, North Carolina, turned on itself, whispering accusations at a grieving 13-year-old girl and an elderly grandfather who made the fatal mistake of finding his own granddaughter’s body. They pointed fingers at neighbors, at strangers, at anyone but the man who had actually committed the crime. That man, … Read more

The silence in Death Row’s execution chamber was broken only by the hum of the lethal injection machinery. Danny Rolling, the man who plunged Gainesville into a nightmare, took his last breath at 6:13 p. m. on October 25, 2006. He sang a religious hymn as the drugs flowed, offering no final words of remorse … Read more

In the wake of Californa Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a moratorium on executions, The Fresno Bee looks back at past San Quentin executions. Three men from the San Joaquin Valley have been executed since California reinstituted the death penalty in 1977. Clarence Ray Allen of Fresno in 2006 was the last California execution at San … Read more

Adva Levie, a 29-year-old former Penthouse and Playboy model, is back behind bars after authorities say her alleged dating app theft scheme took a disturbing new turn, with prosecutors now accusing her of violating court orders and her billionaire ex-fiancé facing charges for allegedly trying to intimidate witnesses. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued … Read more

A fresh wave of forensic evidence and canine alerts has reignited the chilling possibility that Charles Manson and his murderous family left behind a far larger trail of bodies than the world ever knew. New searches at two abandoned California ranches, once the cult’s strongholds, have uncovered chemical signatures consistent with human decomposition, prompting law … Read more

The blood was still wet on the walls when the first police officers arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive, their flashlights cutting through the darkness of a Benedict Canyon night that would forever alter the American psyche. What they found inside the sprawling hilltop estate was not merely a crime scene but a tableau of such … Read more

STARKVILLE, Fla. — The fluorescent lights never flicker off inside Florida State Prison’s death watch cell, and on this night, they burn with a particular urgency that Willie Jasper Darden knows all too well. He has been here before, six times before, watching the clock crawl toward an appointed hour of death only to have … Read more

Der Doppelmord an Monika und Karl O. in dem beschaulichen Ort Altenstadt-Untereichen bei Neu-Ulm hat sich als ein Familiendrama offenbart, das tief in Habgier, Hass und einem perfiden Plan verwurzelt ist. Die Ermittlungen der Kripo Neu-Ulm förderten ein erschütterndes Bild zutage, das am Ende zur Verurteilung des eigenen Sohnes Patrick O. , seiner Ehefrau Julia … Read more