In 1988 Nike told us to ‘Just Do It’. Thirty years on, that ad campaign remains one of the most successful of all time. From KitKat’s ‘Have a break’ to L’Oreal’s ‘Because you’re worth it’, Suzanne Harrington examines the power of a slogan.

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.

The US Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three killers in the state of Texas today because of problems with instructions given to jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.