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 ...

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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 ...

Cedric Ricks, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for stabbing his common-law wife and her 8-year-old son to death in their North Texas apartment, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening ...

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 ...

RAIFORD, Fla. — Billy Leon Kearse, the Fort Pierce man convicted of shooting and killing a police sergeant 35 years ago, was declared dead at 6:24 p.m. He declined his last meal in the hours before ...

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 — ...