Delay triggered a bit of legal chaos in Atlanta courtroom with a series of unanswered questions in Stacey Ian Humphreys’ case. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney speaks at an emergency hearing at ...

Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Police are hunting modified cars - and taking them Something weird is going on with the 66 billion trees China ...

Alabama’s first scheduled execution of 2026 was halted on June 11. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, blocking the state from using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate ...

After a botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida is on track this year to break its own record with 20 executions, leading all states by far in carrying out the death penalty. The state accounted for about 40% of all executions nationwide ...

Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of 2026 Thursday evening, putting Jeffrey Lee to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for a double homicide committed during a pawn shop robbery almost three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei attends a meeting of the heads of the three branches of government in Tehran.

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt ...