Robert Roberson execution date set for October 16 in shaken baby syndrome murder case – CBS News Watch CBS News A judge in Texas on Wednesday set a new execution date, Oct. 16, for Robert Roberson, the man convicted of violently shaking his 2-year-old daughter to death. Omar Villafranca reports. Be the first to know … Read more
Execution date set for Texas man convicted of shaken baby syndrome murder – CBS News Watch CBS News An execution date has been set for Robert Robertson, a man convicted of murdering his daughter. He would be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for shaken baby syndrome. CBS News’ Shanelle … Read more
Starke, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. It would be the 26th execution in the U.S. this year. There were 25 nationwide in all of 2024. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled … Read more
Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform … Read more
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death … Read more
A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a Central Florida bar was executed Tuesday evening. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, following decades on death row for the 1994 killing of Michelle McGrath. His execution proceeded as scheduled after last-day appeals were denied. Florida … Read more