Virgie Langford was ready for retirement. For five decades, the 70-year-old ran a mom-and-pop grocery store in Palmetto along Florida's Gulf Coast. The neighborhood had gotten dangerous, Langford got ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Wednesday she has set the time for the execution of death row inmate Jeffery Lee. Lee, 49, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia sometime during a 30-hour ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

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 ...

(London, April 15, 2026) – The Singaporean government should immediately halt the execution of Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, scheduled for April 16, 2026, for trafficking cannabis, Human Rights Watch, ...

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Wednesday that his office plans to seek execution warrants for three longtime death row inmates. Prosecutors believe Zane Floyd, 50, Donald Sherman, ...

The Florida Supreme Court is deciding whether to allow further analysis of DNA evidence in the case of James Aren Duckett. Duckett was convicted in 1988 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl and had ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Life in prison without parole is the sentence for a man found guilty in the execution-style murder of a 25-year-old victim. Djaune Ferguson learned his fate Tuesday after ...

DALLAS — James Broadnax remains scheduled for an execution later this month after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied his motion for a stay of execution, according to court documents obtained ...

LIVINGSTON — It’s almost time for the ceremony, and Tiana Krasniqi is changing into her wedding dress in the back of her Kia Soul, parked in the prison lot. She grabs her marriage license and her vows ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it won't consider another man's confession as a reason to pause a scheduled lethal injection in three weeks. James Broadnax was convicted of murdering ...