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Mom faces death penalty for murdering 3-year-old daughter after forcing her to drink bleach

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POINCIANA, FL – The State’s Attorney’s office announced today that Florida prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty for Joanne Zephir, a mother accused of making her daughters ingest bleach and choking her youngest to death. Zephir, 38, was found unconscious in a car on Mother’s Day 2022 with her three-year-old daughter and her older sister, aged eight. According to authorities, Zephir had compelled her daughters to drink bleach before attempting to strangle them. …

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Supermarket mass shooter faces the death penalty after killing 10 victims

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BUFFALO, NY – The Justice Department plans to seek the death penalty against the man accused of a mass shooting at a supermarket. The gunfire claimed the lives of ten African Americans, according to an announcement made Friday in a federal court filing. Payton Gendron, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, is already serving a life sentence without parole after admitting guilt on state murder and hate crime charges related to the 2022 assault. Although New York …

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Homeless man charged with horrific murder of 5-year-old girl

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TOPEKA, KS – Mickel Cherry, a 25-year-old homeless man, was arraigned on Thursday on charges of murder and rape linked to the death of a 5-year-old girl named Zoey Felix in Topeka, Kansas. Cherry is facing one count each of capital murder, first-degree murder, and rape in connection with Zoey’s death on Monday. He is currently detained in Topeka with a $2 million bond, and his subsequent court date is yet to be scheduled. Mark …

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Serial killer faces death penalty

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A Texas man, previously convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl in the 1980s, has now been indicted on two new murder charges. One of those charges carries the possibility of the death penalty. Raul Meza Jr., 62, was arrested earlier this year for the murders of his roommate in May and a woman in 2019. Prosecutors announced the indictments on Friday, revealing that Meza may be connected to additional cold cases dating back to 1996. …

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Three young boys were killed by a man released with an ankle monitor

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Residents in the small Pennsylvania town of Lebanon are in mourning after a triple shooting left two young boys – 8 and 9 years old – dead and a third victim, 19-year-old Joshua Lugo-Perez also fatally injured. The alleged shooter, 22-year-old Alex Torres-Santos, is now in police custody and facing three counts of homicide and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide. The breakdown of events, as shared by Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf, is …

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Florida man sentenced to death for killing wife and four children

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A Florida man, Michael Jones, has been sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife and four children in July 2019. The decision was formalized by Ocala County Judge Anthony Tatti on Friday, following a jury’s recommendation for the death penalty during a January sentencing trial. Jones’ attorney has announced plans to appeal the sentence. The tragic events began when Casei Jones accused her husband of infidelity after examining his phone. A heated …

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Execution set for disturbed murderer who killed 6-year-old girl

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The Missouri Supreme Court has scheduled an execution for a man found guilty of the murder of a 7-year-old girl in the St. Louis area two decades ago. Johnny Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and other criminal charges in connection with the death of Cassandra “Casey” Williamson in July 2002. In response to a motion filed by the State of Missouri last year, the court has ordered the execution to take place at 6 …

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Man On Death Row Gouges Out His Own Eyeball and Eats It

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Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas, 39, is scheduled for execution on April 5, 2023. Thomas was sentenced to death after he fatally stabbed his estranged wife, 20-year-old Laura Christine Boren, their 4-year-old son, Andre Lee, and Boren’s 13-month-old daughter, Leyha Marie Hughes. He did so in a burst of violence that he claims was driven by religious delusions and auditory hallucinations. Thomas’ lawyers say that he was plagued by mental illness and had a …

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Man executed on death row for murdering an elderly married couple

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On Thursday, 62-year-old Scott James Eizember was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma. He received this sentencing 19 years after murdering an elderly couple. With an intravenous line in his arm, Eizember told The Associated Press, “I’m at peace.” He continued by saying, “my conscience is clear, completely. I love my children.” Eizember ate his last meal on Wednesday evening at 5:10 p.m. On Thursday morning, lethal drugs were administered, and he was pronounced dead …

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Ex-Marine Executed After Beating Son To Death For Wetting The Bed

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Richard Stephen Fairchild, an ex-Marine, was convicted of killing his 3-year old son, Adam Broomhallm, after the child wet the bed. The death of the child began with an overconsumption of alcohol. Fairchild drank all day with the boy’s mother, then beat the child and burned both sides of his body with a furnace, then threw the child into a dining table and knocked him unconscious. Later that same day, the child died. He never …

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