The drummer from indie band Keane will today meet a death row prisoner in the US, jailed in what campaigners believe to be a miscarriage of justice.

A US man who raped and suffocated a topless dancer in 1975 was executed overnight after decades of retrials and appeals.

A man convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1984 was executed by injection after the US Supreme Court rejected his final appeals.