TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop is set to be Florida’s third execution of 2026, keeping the state on ...

A Texas inmate who once escaped custody after being sentenced to death was executed by lethal injection, becoming the first person executed in the United States this year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, ...

Texas carried out the first US execution of 2026 on January 28. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, marking another round in the state ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first US execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

US death penalty sentences fell to a historic low last year and executions also dropped sharply, contributing to a global slump of over a third from 2015, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The ...

A man who killed two men in a drive-by shooting after a nightclub altercation is set to be the first execution of the year in Oklahoma and the second in the United States. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was ...