The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the execution of former police officer James Duckett. Duckett was sentenced to death in 1988 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee. Duckett's ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared ahead of his Tuesday execution. The state’s highest court could lift the order based on DNA results. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has addressed the recent execution of 19-year-old wrestling star Saleh Mohammadi by the Iranian regime. After multiple Olympians, including three gold ...

A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

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Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

Iranian thugs are executing of anti-regime protesters with wanton and brutal abandon — even murdering wounded demonstrators lying in hospital beds, sources told The Post. Horrifying footage is being ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scheduled the state's second execution of 2026 for February 24. Melvin Trotter was convicted of a 1986 murder and sentenced to death in 1987, then resentenced to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled four executions in 2026. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were ...

The family of detained Iranian protester Erfan Soltani have said his execution was postponed, as US President Donald Trump said he had received assurances that the “killing has stopped.” “We were told ...