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ATLANTA — An execution for a man convicted of killing real estate agents has been paused.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney on Monday temporarily halted the execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys.A jury convicted…

At least 50 migrants were tortured and thrown overboard after being accused of witchcraft on a boat crossing to Europe, police have said.The first allegations of mass high seas executions on board the overcrowded vessel emerged at the…

A convicted killer who fatally shot his girlfriend and her daughters in their Tennessee home nearly 40 years ago groaned in pain as he was executed today.Byron Black died at 10.43am Tuesday, roughly 10 minutes after the lethal injection…

Banished from the mainland, prisoners on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan Island await news of their fate.The prison complex is home to a number of prisons of varying levels of security. The least volatile can expect to spend their…

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Kenneth Eugene Smith has become the first person in history to be executed with nitrogen gas.The convicted killer, 58, had a tight gas mask placed over his nose and mouth before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him inside…