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An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday.

A federal judge Tuesday blocked the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Albert Greenwood Brown, saying there was "no way" the court could conduct an adequate review of California's new lethal-injection procedures before the death sentence was to be carried out Thursday.

The first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years has been put to death in Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday. She became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly a century. Supporters and relatives of the victims watched her execution at Greensville Correctional Center.

A man convicted of murdering five children in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is scheduled to be executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday morning.

Barring a last-minute reprieve, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, a hood will be placed over his head and a small white target will be pinned over his heart.

Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and convicted and is likely to be executed, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was appalled at China's execution of a British citizen caught smuggling heroin on Tuesday, prompting China to defend its judicial integrity and denounce interference.

A convicted killer, Kenneth Biros, was put to death by receiving a single shot, similar to the one used to euthanize animals.

The man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC area will be put to death later, after an appeal was rejected.

Nine men have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday....