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3 days ago · As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
1 day ago · In the fall of 1990, a serial killer went on a vicious killing spree in Gainesville just as a new semester was beginning at the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College. In the span of...
3 days ago · You can view the murder sites and other locations as they were at the time of the killings and as they are today. You can also view general street shots of the East End of London, and see photographs and images of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
1 day ago · Missouri has set a September 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence from the crime scene that convincingly demonstrates that he did not commit the murder. In Texas, Robert ...
5 days ago · The death penalty was first used in Missouri in 1810 when Peter Johnson was hanged for murder. Missouri carried out a total of 285 executions from 1810 to 1965. Hanging was the primary method of execution until 1936, when lethal gas came into use from 1937 until 1987.
4 days ago · The Arizona Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a former border activist sentenced to death for killing a man and his 9-year-old daughter during a 2009 home invasion in Southern Arizona.
7 hours ago · The 28-year-old American criminal convicted of murder was initially given a death sentence by electrocution before being reduced to life imprisonment. Godwin died from electrocution when he bit into wires while attempting to fix a broken television set, at the same time sitting on a metal toilet in his prison cell at the Central Correctional Institute in South Carolina.
