Amber McLaughlin killed and raped her former girlfriend A prisoner in Missouri has become the first openly transgender woman to be executed in United States history. Amber McLaughlin, 49, received the death penalty after being convicted of stalking, raping and killing former girlfriend, 45-year-old Beverly Guenther, in 2003, before she began to publicly identify as […]

3 years ago

Joe Nathan James Jr was put on death row for the murder of Faith Hill An American prisoner could have experienced the longest recorded execution in US history after he was said to have been put through “three hours of pain” following a lethal injection gone wrong. Joe Nathan James Jr, who was put on […]

3 years ago

Joseph Wood’s told his victims’ family that he ‘takes comfort in knowing my pain stops’ A double murderer smiled and laughed at the family of his victims moments before he was executed in a “cruel” procedure that took nearly two hours and reportedly left him gasping 600 times. The final moments of Joseph Wood’s life […]

3 years ago

Oscar Smith’s legal team argued that unknown DNA had been found on the murder weapon A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and her sons in 1989 is set to be executed Thursday after a last-ditch request for clemency was rejected. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee declined to intervene in the case of Oscar Smith’s […]

4 years ago

Eric Scott Branch was convicted of raping and killing Susan Morris, a 21-year-old University of West Florida student, in 1993. A death row inmate shouted “murderers! murderers! murderers!” as he was put to death at Florida State Prison, before then turning to Governor Rick Scott and telling him that he should be the one to carry out the […]

8 years ago