The Florida Supreme Court issued a per curiam ruling on March 10, 2026, affirming the death sentence of Michael L. King and denying his request for a stay of execution. King, who was convicted of the ...

Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of the year March 12 amid weeks of protests from death penalty opponents, putting Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for a ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

In a continuation of what has become the deadliest era of state-sanctioned killing in modern Florida history, the state executed Billy Leon Kearse on Tuesday, March 3. Kearse, 53, was killed by lethal ...

This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Kendrick Simpson, 45, on Aug. 11, 2025, who is scheduled to be executed, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Oklahoma, for the 2006 drive-by ...

Florida executed its first prisoner of 2026 on Tuesday evening, a man twice convicted in separate murders 12 years apart and who stabbed a robbery victim in the neck with a hunting knife while his ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As Alabama moves closer to carrying out the execution of a 75-year-old man who did not fire the fatal shot, an extraordinary plea for mercy has emerged from two unlikely voices: a ...

“We are addressing these really huge questions about revolution and violence and about bravery and courage,” said Carolyn Wright, co-director of “The ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

Charles Thompson was the first Texas execution of the year on Wednesday. Thompson was sentenced to death for the 1998 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Houston. Thompson escaped ...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, “1984″ The buildup to last weekend’s atypically heavy snowstorm was ...