Amy Harwell: Last News

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A murderer on death row has been found dead three days after a decision to set his execution date.Stephen Hugueley, 53, who shot his mum dead in 1986, then murdered an inmate in jail before stabbing a prison counsellor to death years later, died behind bars on early Friday morning.Exactly how he died is yet to be confirmed however Dorinda Carter, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction, said it appears to have been from natural causes.Hugueley, 53, was pronounced deceased at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution at 2:35 am, according to the statement.The Independent reports that Hugueley's lawyer Amy Harwell was notified of his passing by the prison chaplain just

Death Row resident will live to while away another day after his lethal injection appointment was botched at the last minute yesterday (April 21).And now his lawyers are demanding an immediate investigation into the cocktail of drugs set to be used which they assert would have 'tortured' their client. Triple killer Oscar Smith was set to die for murdering his estranged wife Judith Smith and her sons Jason Burnett, 13, and Chad Burnett, 16, inside their home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on October 1, 1989 but was saved at the last minute.According to Governor Bill Lee, Smith's reprieve was "due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection."He continued: "I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol.

A federal judge temporarily halted the planned execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys contracted coronavirus.  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the ruling Thursday from Washington.The move bars the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out the Dec.