Execution

Execution date set for Alabama man convicted of killing driver who stopped at ATM

The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal shooting of a delivery driver who had stopp...

us | 5 months ago

Alabama schedules nitrogen gas execution for inmate who survived lethal injection attempt

Alabama has scheduled a date for the upcoming execution of Alan Eugene Miller, a convicted murderer ...

us | 5 months ago

Missouri set to execute death row inmate David Hosier for 2009 murders after governor denies clemency

Missouri was planning to carry out its second execution of the year on Tuesday after Gov. Mike Parso...

us | 4 months ago

Iran overturns the death sentence of rapper Toomaj Salehi, charged in connection to 2022 protests

Iran's Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a government critic and a popular hip-hop arti...

world | 3 months ago

Infamous hangman-turned-TikTok star dies in Bangladesh year after being released from prison

Bangladesh's deadliest executioner died Monday a year after he was released from prison where he han...

world | 3 months ago

Texas inmate set to be executed on what would have been teen victim's 41st birthday

A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot the 18-year-old girl...

us | 3 months ago

Oklahoma executes Richard Rojem for kidnapping, rape, murder of 7-year-old former stepdaughter

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 7-year-old gi...

us | 3 months ago

Alabama set to execute convicted murderer, then skip autopsy

A man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped for cash at an ATM to take his wife to dinn...

us | 2 months ago

Texas man executed for 1997 killing of female jogger after claims of intellectual disability rejected

A Texas man who claimed an intellectual disability in a late attempt at a reprieve was executed Wedn...

us | 2 months ago

Oklahoma city to pay over $7 million to cleared death row inmate who spent almost half a century in prison

Edmond, Okla. — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate...

us | 2 months ago

Alabama's third nitrogen execution set for November

Alabama's governor has set a Nov. 21 execution date for what is scheduled to be the nation's third d...

us | 1 month ago

Inmate tries to prove innocence as execution looms 26 years after murder of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter

Testimony begins Wednesday in a hearing with life-or-death implications for Missouri inmate Marcellu...

us | 1 month ago

Electric chair tested and firing squad prepared, South Carolina prison director says

South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state is ready to carry out an execution next m...

us | 1 month ago

Florida executes man convicted of 1994 killing of college student in national forest

A Florida man convicted of killing a college freshman and raping the murder victim's older sister wh...

us | 1 month ago

South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to stop upcoming execution of Freddie Owens, the state's first in 13 years

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is s...

us | 1 month ago

Last-ditch efforts seek to halt looming execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri

Two new court filings are again aiming to halt the impending execution of Marcellus Williams, a cond...

us | 4 weeks ago