Ex-officer James Duckett had been set to be executed on Tuesday for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl while he was ...

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After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the ...

GRADY, Ark. (KTHV) – The State of Arkansas has completed the first double execution in the United States since 2000 with the executions of Jack Jones Jr. and Marcel Williams. It is the first double ...

In 2001, Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Two decades later, his death sentence was carried out — and he chose an execution method considered one of the most ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday night for a murder he did not commit or even witness. Charles “Sonny” Burton ...

The Florida context from Florida Phoenix: Three death warrants are pending in Florida as of this writing, for Norman M. Grim Jr. in the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor in Escambia County; Bryan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison. Corrections staff dismantle the ...

Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd on Thursday added to the growing number of executions for the year. Boyd was the 40th person executed in 2025 with another two months left in the year, according to ...

Alabama’s execution of Anthony Boyd on Thursday added to the growing number of executions for the year. Boyd was the 40th person executed in 2025 with another two months left in the year, according to ...