The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month.
Samuel Smithers’ has been on Death Row since 1999 for the 1996 murders of two women he picked up at an east Tampa hotel. His attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to spare Smithers because of his age ...
More than two decades after the brutal murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne, the man twice convicted of the crime will be ...
On the eve of another midnight execution, questions are mounting over recent lethal injections that witnesses fear were ...
Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third execution ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Governor Josh Stein on Friday, Oct. 3, signed House Bill 307, also known as ‘Iryna’s ...
Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death by Decarlos Brown Jr while travelling through Charlotte, North Carolina ...
Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill can intervene in a capital punishment case if a local prosecutor requests it, the ...
EVANSVILLE – Of the 96 convicted killers executed through the Indiana death penalty since 1897, 11 have had ties to Southern Indiana. And on Oct. 10, that number will grow to 12.
The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be ...
Republican state legislators hope a new crime law will restart the death penalty. Legal experts say it won’t be that easy.
The Office of the Ohio Public Defender is finding itself at odds with the state attorney general and some Republican lawmakers as the former argues against adding nitrogen hypoxia as a legal means of ...