Crime
Read the latest crime news and shocking real life stories from the UK and beyond.
Oscar Franklin Smith had been on death row for over 30 years for a triple murder
Corbie Jean Walpole poured gasoline over Jake Loader following their nine-year friendship
British student Sarjit Kaur Mann went missing on a holiday to France with her brother and sister back in 1976
Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year
It's already being piloted in parts of England
The controversial method has been adopted by five states in the US
Indiana killer Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was executed earlier this week following the 2000 murder of a local police officer
People have rushed to social media to share their outrage over the situation
Texas State Senator, John Whitmire, announced the ban in 2011
Matthew Lee Johnson died by lethal injection on Tuesday
James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker Larry Don Rohus
The four-part Netflix docu-series has left viewers at home feeling 'sick' to their stomachs
The US president and first lady gathered at the Rose Garden on Monday (19 May) to make the major announcement
The 'Papi' singer was reportedly handed a pair of federal court lawsuits on Saturday (17 May)
Several of the escaped Orleans Parish Jail inmates were facing murder charges
The Saudi-born pan-Islamist supervised the execution of the September 11 attacks inside the US in 2001
Glen Rogers, who is known as The Casanova Killer, was executed via lethal injection in Florida
It's the second time criminals have set their sights on the Melania Trump statue
The Canadian singer's representatives have issued a statement on rumours that Bieber was a 'victim' of Combs
Prior to being executed, each death row inmate is asked by officers if they wish to make a final statement
The family of El Chapo were reportedly transferred into America this week
Ahmed al-Sharaa once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and was at the head of a group that Washington has called a terrorist organisation
The highly-publicised Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial began last week (5 May)
Peter Sullivan, 68, has spent more of his life in prison than free due to the 'flawed' murder conviction
Lyle and Erik Menendez issue graphic statement on parents' murders as their fate is suddenly changed
The Los Angeles brothers murdered their parents Kitty and José Menendez in 1989
Erik and Lyle Menendez were jailed for life in 1996 for the murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez