Oklahoma’s last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing what the warden later described as “a bloody mess”.

Annual traditions are everywhere in San Antonio.

Some five million years of slugging it out with our fists has left its mark on the human face, scientists believe.

A DOUBLE murderer has become the first American prisoner in 14 years to be executed by firing squad in Utah.

A firing squad executed a convicted killer today, US prison officials said.

A CONDEMNED US inmate’s decision to die today in a barrage of bullets fired by five unnamed marksmen was vilified by many as an archaic form of Wild West-style justice.

The US state of Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad after a judge agreed to the inmate’s request, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.

Utah’s growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California’s ban on gay marriage.

Democrat Hillary Clinton tonight said her opponent Barack Obama may be getting a little ahead of himself in acting like the party’s nominee before the final contests of the primary season are over.

HILLARY CLINTON and Barack Obama split the Democratic Party delegates yesterday as John McCain declared himself the front-runner in the Republican race after the biggest Super Tuesday in history.

A vase given to Adolf Hitler has been turned over to US investigators rounding up a collection of Nazi artefacts stolen from a Utah storage unit.

Crews searching for any sign of six miners trapped for more than three weeks are “hoping a miracle could happen”, a US federal official told lawmakers.

Six miners in the US were trapped tonight after a coal mine caved in.

PAUL Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children’s TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

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