James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...
VATICAN CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - Pope Leo condemned capital punishment for a second day running on Friday, calling for its abolition in the United States just as President Donald Trump's ...
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Iran has unleashed several new executions — with many more expected to come — over fears of another citizen-led uprising as the embattled regime fights for survival in its war against the US and ...
The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the state Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The images of political prisoners, taken just before they were killed by Nazis in 1944, were put up for auction on eBay. The sale was pulled shortly thereafter. By Koba Ryckewaert and Niki Kitsantonis ...
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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 ...