A man from Missouri was put to death on Tuesday night for the murder of his girlfriend and her three young children. Raheem Taylor, 58, was the third inmate executed in Missouri since November, and the fifth in the United States this year, all by lethal injection. Taylor attempted to claim he was innocent, stating he was in California at the time of the murders. However, his claims were denied by St. Louis County Prosecuting …
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 …
Oklahoma to execute man for 2002 killing of infant daughter – The Associated Press – en Español Benjamin Cole, an inmate in Oklahoma, was executed on Thursday morning despite claims that he was severely mentally ill. Attorneys for Cole did not dispute that he killed his infant daughter, but argued that had a growing lesion on his brain that contributed to his mental illness. The state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 to deny clemency …