CONROE, Texas—A man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979, authorities have announced. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Monday it had spent decades investigating the September 1979 strangulation death of 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson. She went missing after going […]
PHOENIX—An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in less than three weeks for killing an 8-year-old girl, marking the second condemned man to decline lethal gas since the state refurbished its gas chamber—a method of execution that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than 20 years. Frank Atwood […]
The United States has “credible information” that Russian forces executed Ukrainians who were trying to surrender near Donetsk, a U.S. official said Wednesday. “We now have credible information that a Russian military unit operating in the vicinity of Donetsk executed Ukrainians who were attempting to surrender, rather than take them into custody,” Ambassador-at-Large for Global […]
McALESTER, Okla.—Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the 1985 shooting death of an Oklahoma City-area schoolteacher after courts rejected his claim that the state’s lethal injection method would result in unconstitutional pain and suffering. Bigler Stouffer II, 79, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Stouffer was the first person […]
Lai Xiaomin, former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co., the country’s largest such firm, was executed by a court in Tianjin city on Jan. 29. The firm was founded in Beijing on Nov. 8, 1999. Since September 2012, Lai also served as the company’s Chinese Communist Party chief. Lai was first placed under investigation […]
A Georgia man convicted more than two decades ago of shooting and killing his ex-wife’s boyfriend and then bludgeoning her to death with the shotgun he had used is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on Wednesday.
A Texas death row inmate who murdered his estranged wife’s parents and brother was executed by lethal injection on Feb. 28. Billie Wayne Coble, who prosecutors once described as having “a heart full of scorpions” was put to death in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville at 6.24 p.m. after an appeals court rejected a bid […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas—A Texas death row inmate once described by a prosecutor as having “a heart full of scorpions” was set to be executed on Feb. 28, for killing his estranged wife’s parents and her brother, who was a police officer. Billie Wayne Coble was condemned for the August 1989 shooting deaths of his in-laws, Robert […]
PORTLAND, Oregon—A convicted murderer called the “Animal,” who was executed by the state of Texas in 1999 has been identified by DNA as the person who killed a young woman in Portland, Oregon, nearly 40 years ago. Anna Marie Hlavka, 20, was killed in an apartment on July 24, 1979. Authorities said on Jan. 31, […]
MARAWI, Philippines (AP)—Philippine forces found the bodies of what appeared to be eight executed civilians as authorities launched fresh airstrikes Sunday to drive militants linked to ISIS out of a besieged southern city. The death toll from six days of fighting neared 100. The crisis in Marawi, home to some 200,000 people, has grown increasingly dire […]
