The Islamic Republic of Iran has accelerated its executions of dissidents and activists, with the true number of victims likely obscured by the regime’s internet censorship and blackout. Ever since ...

Supermicro (SMCI) has proposed a series of equity and equity-linked financing transactions totaling $7B to help it fund the purchase of components necessary to complete recent orders for its advanced ...

The number of recorded death-penalty executions last year was 2,707, a 78% increase compared to the previous year, according to Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog. The number in ...

A federal appeals court has denied an effort by a group of Indiana media outlets to gain access to death penalty executions. The debate over who is allowed to witness the execution of death row ...

A federal judge has banned Alabama from executing a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, reversing a previous opinion and concluding that the controversial and relatively new execution method is ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a record 19 executions in 2025 — and has carried out 17 so far — the highest ever in a single year in both the state and the U.S. since the 1970s. The state also ...

A proposal to permit the state of Indiana to end the lives of convicted murderers by firing squad is unlikely to become law this year. House Bill 1119 did not advance out of the Republican-controlled ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder, and an appeals court upheld the decision. By Rick ...

Those choices likely reflect more about the number of botched lethal injection executions in the U.S. than any endorsement of the other methods, said Denno. A federal appeals court has raised ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...