Dec 22, 2023

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The former beauty queen accused of plotting to kill her ex-Auburn football player husband in the Bahamas can be home for the holidays if she travels with an ankle monitor.

She is accused of being involved in a murder-for-hire plot against her estranged husband, former Auburn long snapper Robert Shiver. The couple reportedly met at the university. 

Lindsay Shiver’s attorney asked the Bahamian judge presiding over the case to allow her to travel home to Alabama for the holidays.

The judge agreed, provided Lindsay Shiver wear an ankle monitor while she is in the United States.

She allegedly hatched the plot to kill Robert Shiver with her reported boyfriend, Terrance Bethel, 28, and his friend, 29-year-old Faron Newbold.

The alleged murder plot was uncovered when authorities were investigating a break-in at a bar in Guana Cay. Messages discovered on social media app WhatsApp led to the criminal charges against the trio.

A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month, urged Alabama on Thursday to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say his final words before the gas mask is placed on his face.

U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker made the suggestion in a court order setting a Dec. 29 deadline to submit information before he rules on the inmate’s request to block the execution. The judge made similar comments the day prior at the conclusion of a court hearing.

Alabama is scheduled to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Jan. 25 in what would be the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Nitrogen hypoxia is authorized as an execution method in Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma but has never been used to put an inmate to death.

The proposed execution method would use a gas mask, placed over Smith’s nose and mouth, to replace breathable air with nitrogen, causing Smith to die from lack of oxygen.

Hulk Hogan announced on social media Wednesday that he has been baptized.

The baptism took place in a ceremony in Florida.

Hogan’s wife, Sky Daily Hogan, also took part in the baptism. The two married in September. They were engaged in July after about a year of dating following his divorce from second wife Jennifer McDaniel in 2022. 

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