The Trump administration executed Lisa Montgomery, 52, in the early hours ofWednesday morning, ending the tortured life of the only woman on federal deathrow.The government killed Montgomery with a lethal injection of pentobarbital overobjections by her lawyers that her mental state rendered her incompetent forexecution.Montgomery, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic featuresand complex post-traumatic stress disorder, had lost touch with reality andwas unable to comprehend ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the ruling of a lower court, which rejected Linda Carty's arguments prosecutors coerced witnesses and hid information in her trial.
Debra Milke describes her release as ‘bittersweet’ after 25 years served for the murder of her son, in a case that rested on the work of disgraced detective
The state has executed four women since 1927.
Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit are set to become first women executed in post-independence India
Lisa Montgomery, who killed a pregnant woman and took her baby, died by lethal injection in Indiana.
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After 15 years on death row for the murder of her abusive husband, Michelle Byrom has been released.
Judith Ann was just 15 years old when she married known criminal Alvin Neelley. Together, they soon set out on a depraved crime spree.
Asia Bibi was on death row for nine years after being wrongly accused by fellow villagers of insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Her daughter has pleaded for her mother to be allowed to leave Pakistan.
After twice having her execution postponed earlier this year, convict Kelly Renee Gissendaner is now set to be put to death on September 29, an agency says.
The execution of Melissa Lucio has been delayed. Here's what we know about the Texas death row inmate's case, and what's next.
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A death row inmate in Oklahoma is scheduled for execution next week, but he has fired his lawyers and skipped a clemency hearing. Capital punishment defense attorneys and anti-death penalty groups have warned the inmate’s spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeff Hood, is turning desperate death row prisoners against their lawyers. Hood says he is trying to raise the profile of these inmates and draw public attention to their cases and stop executions. Critics say he is in it for the publicity and to raise money for Death Penalty Action, an anti-capital punishment group. The looming execution has sharpened a rift between Hood and others working to stop executions.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday issued a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, on death row for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter.
A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations.
As part of an ongoing campaign to have the death penalty abolished nationwide, the influential organization Amnesty International sponsored a series of ads in Puerto Rico depicting the last meals of executed innocent prisoners.
Robin Lee Row has the honour of being the only women on Idaho’s death row. Robin Lee Row who decided to torch the home of her ex husband killing him and their two children. According to authorities before she set the fire Robin Lee Row had taken out large insurance policies on her husband and children.
Texas woman Darlie Routier has sat on death row for two decades now, ever since her 1997 conviction for the murder of one of her two slain children. Some think the case is...
Erica Sheppard has been on Texas death row for a long time. During the early 1990’s Erica Sheppard and her boyfriend saw the victim walking to her car carrying a bundle of clothes. The two would force her into her vehicle and they were then driven back to the victims apartment where she was brutally killed. Sheppard
Lucio, 53, was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, in 2007. Her supporters say she was wrongly convicted and that police coerced a confession.
Sigrid, 39, who is from France but now lives in Florida, has a son with Alan Lyndell Wade, 33, and told Truly that it was 'really hard' to get pregnant with her husband on death row.
After 15 years on death row for the murder of her abusive husband, Michelle Byrom has been released.
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10 March 2018 Tim Koch continues to mark International Women’s Day. What since 1901 has been known as Furnivall Sculling Club (FSC) has an important place in the history of women’s rowing. It was f…
Donna Roberts is on death row in Ohio for the contract killing of her husband. According to court documents Donna Roberts hired an inmate to murder her husband and when he was released from prison he did just that. Nate Jackson who actually pulled the trigger told police that Donna Roberts had nothing to do with the
To many condemned prisoners are monsters, but these women regularly exchange letters with them.
An arrest affidavit states that Claude Lee Wilkerson, 61, kept a 26-year-old homeless woman chained to a bed in his Colorado home since October and raping her twice a day.
After 15 years on death row for the murder of her abusive husband, Michelle Byrom has been released.
EXCLUSIVE: Ashiq Masih, 54, (pictured) gave an emotional interview to MailOnline as he fights to overturn his 50-year-old wife Asia Bibi's conviction for blasphemy in Punjab in 2010.
Woman discovers recipes written on the gravestones and decides to make them and "share" with the deceased authors.
