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The streets of southwest London were never the same after March 2002. A predator moved among the quiet suburbs, targeting young women with a savagery that left detectives scrambling for answers. He struck without warning, leaving behind a trail of broken bodies and shattered families. The first victim was 13-year-old Millie Dowler, a schoolgirl who … Read more

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — The fog rolled in thick off San Francisco Bay on the morning of October 1, 1930, swallowing the granite walls of San Quentin State Prison in a gray shroud that seemed to muffle even the clang of the guard towers’ bells. Inside Death Row, in a cell measuring barely eight feet … Read more

A Missouri man convicted of murdering a six-year-old girl in 2002 was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening, after the United States Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal that questioned whether he was mentally competent enough to understand why he was being executed. Johnny Johnson, 45, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p. m. … Read more

The execution chamber at Holman Correctional Facility fell silent at 6:14 p. m. Thursday as Derrick Ryan Dearman, the Alabama death row inmate who confessed to a brutal 2016 massacre that claimed five adults and an unborn child, was pronounced dead by lethal injection. The state carried out the sentence more than eight years after … Read more

James Dennis Ford was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in Stark, ending a 25-year odyssey through the appeals process for the brutal 1997 murders of a young couple whose toddler daughter survived alone in a blood-soaked truck for 18 hours. Ford, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p. m. after … Read more

The execution chamber at Oklahoma State Penitentiary fell silent at 9:13 p.m. Tuesday as Lois Nadean Smith, 61, was pronounced dead, ending a 19-year journey from death row to the gurney for the brutal 1982 murder of a young mother. Smith, who earned the nickname “Mean Naden” in high school, became the third woman executed … Read more

Texas executed Peter Cantu tonight, the gang leader who ordered the brutal murders of two teenage girls in 1993, bringing an end to a 17-year legal battle that reached the highest courts in the nation and the White House. Cantu, 18 at the time of the killings, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p. m. at … Read more

Thomas Arthur, a 75-year-old convicted murderer who spent more than three decades on Alabama’s death row and survived seven previous execution dates, was pronounced dead just after midnight Thursday, becoming the oldest inmate executed in the state since 1982. Arthur was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility for the 1982 murder … Read more

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The clock on the wall of the Huntsville Death House reads 11:47 p. m. In just 18 hours and 13 minutes, the state of Texas will 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 Michael James Perry. He knows this because he has been counting everything. The number of concrete blocks in his cell wall. The number of fluorescent … Read more

LIVINGSTON, Texas — The final 24 hours of Cameron Todd Willingham’s life were a study in quiet desperation, mechanical routine, and a last-minute hope that flickered only to die. In a holding cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit on February 16, 2004, with the clock ticking toward 7:00 p. m. , Willingham sat under … Read more