President Biden’s failure to make good on a campaign promise to eliminate the federal death penalty has paved the way for capital prosecutions to continue – including the trial of … Read More
Iran said it executed two men Saturday convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country’s … Read More
A man who confessed to brutally raping and killing a teenage girl stranded on the side of a Mississippi road more than two decades ago was executed by the state … Read More
Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed an order Tuesday to commute the sentences of the state’s 17 death row inmates. The term-limited politician who leaves office in less than a … Read More
A Florida man convicted earlier this month of brutally murdering two boys is slated to receive the death penalty after a jury unanimously recommended the punishment Friday following a five-day sentencing … Read More
A convicted killer in Oklahoma was executed Thursday despite his lawyers arguing he was mentally ill and unaware of his imminent death. Benjamin Cole, 57, was pronounced dead at 10:22 … Read More
An Alabama man convicted of killing three people in a 1999 workplace shooting was spared the death penalty at the 11th hour Thursday because his executioner couldn’t find a vein … Read More
Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of a man convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting because of time concerns and trouble accessing the inmate’s veins. Alabama Corrections Commissioner … Read More
Wearing the same suit he wore to their last father-daughter dance, the shattered parent of a Parkland school massacre victim said Wednesday that there are times when he finds it … Read More
The daughter of a construction manager who was brutally murdered three decades ago said her family was “tricked” by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which is pushing to … Read More
