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Houston (AFP) - A Utah man was executed on Thursday for the 1998 murder and sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend's mother, the second execution this week in the United States. Taberon Dave Honie, 48, was put to death by lethal injection at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City, the state's Department of Corrections said in a statement. Honie, who had been imprisoned for more than 25 years, was pronounced dead at 12:25 am (0625 GMT), it said. The execution was the western state's first in 14 years. "From the start it's been, if it needs to be done for them to heal, let's do thi...
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Washington (AFP) - A 64-year-old man convicted of the murder of a delivery van driver during a 1998 robbery was executed in the southern US state of Alabama on Thursday, the state Department of Corrections said in a statement. Keith Edmund Gavin was put to death by lethal injection at a prison in Atmore for the shooting of William Clayton, a 68-year-old father of seven. Gavin "was pronounced deceased by a physician at 6:32 pm," said the statement, adding that he had received four visitors before being put to death. There have been 10 executions in the United States this year. Clayton was kille...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a temporary halt to a convicted murderer's execution, shortly before the man was set to be given a lethal injection in Texas. Ruben Gutierrez, 47, was sentenced to death for taking part in the 1998 killing of Escolastica Harrison, an elderly manager of a mobile home park in the city of Brownsville, which borders Mexico. Gutierrez and two other men were accused of planning to rob Harrison, who kept some $600,000 at home out of a distrust of banks, according to court documents, before beating and stabbing her to death. Of his two co-defe...
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Washington (AFP) - A 69-year-old man convicted of murdering his ex-lover in 2009 was executed on Tuesday in the midwestern US state of Missouri. David Hosier, a former US Navy sailor and firefighter, was put to death by lethal injection at a prison in the town of Bonne Terre. Hosier was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm (2311 GMT), the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a statement. Hosier had long claimed he was innocent of the murders of Angela Gilpin and her husband Rodney Gilpin, but Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, rejected his appeal for clemency on Monday. He was the seco...
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Washington (AFP) - A 50-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Thursday in the southern US state of Alabama for the murders of an elderly couple, prison officials said. Jamie Ray Mills was the sixth Death Row inmate executed in the United States this year. Mills was sentenced to death in 2007 for murdering Floyd Hill, 87, and Vera Hill, 72, during a robbery. They were killed with a machete, tire iron and hammer. His wife, JoAnn Mills, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for her involvement in the 2004 murders and testified against her husband. The Alabama Department of Correc...
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Washington (AFP) - A Missouri man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared. Brian Dorsey, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm Central Time (2311 GMT) following lethal injection for the 2006 murders of Sarah Bonnie, 25, and her husband Ben Bonnie, 28, in New Bloomfield, Missouri. Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for the night to protect him from drug dealers who were trying to collect on a debt. The Bonnies' four-year-old daughter, who was in the hous...
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Washington (AFP) - A man convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago was executed by lethal injection in the western US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, officials said. Michael Smith, 41, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the Department of Corrections officials said in a statement. It said the execution process began at 10:09 am Central Time (1509 GMT) and Smith was pronounced dead 11 minutes later. A "spiritual advisor" was present in the execution chamber at the time. Smith was convicted in 2003 of the separate 2002 murders in Oklahoma City of Ja...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former girlfriend was put to death Wednesday, in the southern US state's first execution in more than four years. Willie Pye, 59, was executed by lethal injection at 11:03 pm (0303 GMT Thursday) at a prison in Jackson, Georgia. The US Supreme Court and State Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a last-minute bid for clemency by Pye. In arguing for clemency, Pye's attorneys said he is intellectually disabled -- with an IQ of 68 -- and experienced a traumatic childhood of "profound poverty, neglect, constant viol...
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Washington (AFP) - A Texas man is to be executed Wednesday for a double murder he insists he did not commit, in a case that has drawn the attention of the Catholic Church and celebrities Kim Kardashian and Martin Sheen. Ivan Cantu, 50, who was convicted of the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's fiancee, is one of two inmates scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in the United States on Wednesday. The other, convicted serial killer Thomas Creech, 73, is to be executed in Idaho. Creech has been on Death Row for nearly 50 years for killing another inmate. Cantu's case has draw...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Friday it was "deeply troubled" by the first-ever execution in the United States using nitrogen gas, an untested method which also drew condemnation from the United Nations and European Union. The southern state of Alabama put Kenneth Smith, a 58-year-old convicted murderer, to death on Thursday by pumping nitrogen gas into a facemask, causing him to suffocate. "The use of nitrogen gas -- it is troubling to us," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. "We are deeply troubled by it." Recent executions in the United States have been carr...
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