James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl — wants the Florida Supreme Court to extend the pause on his ...

The Israeli Knesset approved on Monday evening a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian detainees convicted of killings classified by Israel as “acts of terrorism.” The bill passed its second ...

Florida executed 19 people last year, more than any calendar year in state history and three times more than any other state last year. This year, Florida is on pace to beat that record. As of March ...

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

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FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

STOCKHOLM, March 18 (Reuters) - Iran executed a Swedish citizen on Wednesday, Sweden's ‌foreign minister said, adding that she had summoned the Iranian ambassador in Stockholm to condemn the decision.

Over the past decade, financial innovation has focused on one primary goal: moving money faster. Instant payment systems, blockchain networks, and stablecoins have dramatically compressed settlement ...

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 ...

Texas was scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine whether Andre Thomas is competent to be executed. But that hearing had to be called off, because the expert retained by the state to examine ...

Bitcoin cryptocyrrency sign seen on a smartphone screen with the Morgan Stanley logo of US bank in the background. The wave of new national trust bank charters with digital-asset powers continues — ...