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• One gunman was wounded and arrested, while the other was shot to death by police.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
• Aegon even gets a good pouncing move on one of the soldiers, shanking him to death with a broken arrow.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Yang was the latest official sentenced to death over corruption in recent years.
  — ABC News, 6 July 2026
• Yang was the latest official sentenced to death for corruption in recent years in China.
  — ABC News, 6 July 2026
• Although Wilson has been sentenced to death, his execution is not imminent.
  — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
• The Coliseum stayed in business for 500 years, bums in seats twice a week, watching people hack each other to death.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• Jordan was allegedly stabbed to death by an uncle after being placed in the San Jose home of his grandmother who was also killed.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
• Authorities say Wilson met Melton at a Fort Myers bar and later strangled her to death in her home.
  — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
• Grand Prairie police arrested a homicide suspect who ran from the scene where a man was shot to death in an alley on Saturday night, police said.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2026
• The crush of mourners led to at least eight people being trampled to death, according to the Associated Press.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 3 July 2026
• Two days after Gerardi released the report, on April 26, 1998, he was bludgeoned to death in his home.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
• Following two weeks of testimony during the trial in 1998, the jury found Duncan guilty and sentenced him to death.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 29 June 2026
• Feddon had accompanied Lukehart, who was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of his girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter, through the final month of his life.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
• Thomson ought to spend some time listening to death metal and gangsta rap, or reading the gory novels of Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy.
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
• Like others sentenced to death, Wilson is confined under strict conditions, spending the majority of his time in his cell with limited movement and restricted contact with the outside world.
  — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
• If the law allowing a diminished responsibility defense had been in place at the time of the trial, lawyers who sought the pardon said Ellis at most would have been convicted of manslaughter and not been sentenced to death.
  — ABC News, 8 July 2026
• When Hanna was 8 years old and growing up in Tallahassee, a cousin who worked the overnight shift at a convenience store in North Carolina was beaten to death during a robbery.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
• Investigators reportedly found an empty bottle of vodka in the bathroom, where Bithorn, 36, allegedly was while her child choked to death, the outlet reported.
  — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
• In 2017, al-Assir was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 clashes that killed 18 soldiers, following a trial that lasted two years.
  — ABC News, 8 July 2026
• More about Christa Pike's life in prison When Christa Pike was sentenced to death 30 years ago, Tennessee had to figure out where to house her as the only woman in the state with a death sentence.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 June 2026
• Jean-Paul Marat, an outspoken journalist and one of the political leaders of the French Revolution, was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
  — USA Today, 29 June 2026
• Just 23 people were sentenced to death in the United States last year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, compared with 307 in 1995.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
• Kitty Mia Diaz, 21; Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19; and Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, are accused of beating and stabbing Caroline Peña to death during a fight outside a Del Rio home.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 30 June 2026