Nationwide, a total of 21 executions have been carried out so far this year, including Thursday's, and nearly a dozen more are scheduled, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Aug. 2026
If the Tennessee and Alabama deaths take place, six states will have had executions in 2026.
In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and knife stormed into a nursery in the country's north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults in one of Thailand's deadliest massacres.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Aug. 2026
Although scarce documentation has left a wide range of estimates, as many as 2 million people are said to have been slaughtered in communal massacres during this exodus.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 July 2026
The Johnson County District Court sentenced Robinson to death for the killings of two women and to life in prison in Kansas for the killing of a third.
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Alexa Newsom,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
By the eighth century, Charlemagne was organizing mass slaughters of the animal while the Church, wary of its earlier status as living god, denounced the bear as lewd, noting its disturbing resemblance to humans.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2026
Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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