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Kenneth Smith, 58, became the first-ever inmate in the USA to be put to death by toxic gas following an execution at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility

Convicted German sex offender and prime Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner is being accused of insulting public officials as he awaits trial for five sex crimes

Kenneth Eugene Smith will become the first-ever American to be executed by toxic nitrogen gas in Alabama - but Rev Dr Jeff Hood fears he will die too as he sits by his side as his spiritual advisor

Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates

Ella, 21, who lost both her parents, said she and her family were left 'in shock' listening to the verdict of her dad's killer - as his sentence was "reduced and reduced again".

Sex monster Josef Fritzl's ‘house of horrors’ were he kept his daughter as a captive in a dungeon in Austria has now been converted into blocks of flats, as the local community tries to move on

Evil Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter, Elisabeth, prisoner for 24 years and forced her to have seven of his children, has been moved to a regular prison and could be freed for good this year

Elisabeth Fritzl had to start her life again after spending the majority of her adult years hidden underground in the family's basement as her evil father Joseph Fritzl's sex slave

Incest monster Josef Fritzl, 88, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has walked free from prison yesterday, The Mirror can reveal. He was serving six years for manslaughter after Charlotte Brown was killed on his speedboat

The 79-year-old paedophile has been accused of showing a "total lack of remorse" towards his victims as he faces a civil suit raised by a woman he abused when she was 12 years old

Disgraced reality star Stephen Bear, who was released early from prison last week, jumped on TikTok Live to discuss his future after serving 11 months in HMP Brixton

Ian MacKeller, 75, travelled to the UAE to visit his daughter and babysit his granddaughter - but now faces years in jail after asking his neighbours to be quiet

A stay-at-home girlfriend has said her prison partner has 'no choice' but to accept her sugar baby lifestyle as she needs to maintian her lavish spending habits

At least 1,300 unaccompanied children - some as young as 14 - were wrongly put in unsupervised adult accommodation and detention in 18 months after their age

Sam Atkins has received 18 years in prison for murdering his ex-partner's close mate who'd tried to protect her after the now-convicted killer became violent after being dumped

Sophie Henson was just 19 years old and 36 weeks into her pregnancy when her boyfriend Zach Pennell stopped the car in a rural part of Wales and put his hands around her throat

The jail in Salford has been the location for several affairs between prisoners and guards and cars have been set on fire outside while drugs are regularly smuggled in

Roda Osman, 33, alleged she was hit in the face with a brick on September 3 but she has since been charged with felony theft by deception - an offense carrying up to 10 years in prison

Terry Jon Martin stole the slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as he had hoped to harvest real rubies from the shoes and sell them, his lawyer said

Miss Donalsonville, Trinity Madison Poague, 18, faces murder charges related to the death of an 18-month-old child in Georgia. She was also a contestant in the National Peanut Festival Pageant

Two teenage girls claim they were kept in isolation cells during their entire stay at a Kentucky detention centre and the song Baby Shark was played in Spanish on repeat

Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Connor, in 2004, and his case was the inspiration behind the 2014 film Gone Girl

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Andrew Miller, 53, abducted the primary-school aged girl and subjected her to repeated attacks which a judge described as “every parent’s worst nightmare”