A double murderer who claimed he was too fat to be safely executed was put to death by lethal injection today.

Ohio has executed Jeffrey Lundgren, a cult leader who was convicted of shooting and killing a family of five outside Cleveland in 1989.

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.