A US cult leader sentenced to death for killing a family of five was scheduled to be executed today after losing one of his final appeals.

A man is set to die tomorrow for murdering his wife, marking the first execution in Ohio since the state’s prison department changed capital punishment procedures.

In an unprecedented delay, the execution of a man was held up today as a state team worked to find a suitable vein for the lethal injection.

A US man sentenced to die for raping and murdering two women 20 years ago has stayed silent publicly about the crimes, refusing even to ask the Ohio governor to spare him.

A MAN convicted of murder during a $15 robbery a decade ago was executed in Ohio yesterday, the seventh in the state this year.