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 ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

Matthew Butler, then 28, was shot and killed in Garland in 2008 with his friend and fellow Christian music producer, Stephen Swan, 26. Butler's mother shared this photo in his online-obituary public ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney for two Utah death row inmates, Michael Anthony Archuleta and Troy Michael Kell, argued in front of the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that they should always be able to ...

The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...

The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the state Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it over with already. Jeremy Williams wants his execution fast-tracked, after a ...

A scheduled execution in Florida will not happen on Tuesday. It comes after the Florida Supreme Court refused to lift the stay of execution it granted to the former police officer. James Duckett was ...

BOISE, Idaho — The event organized by Worth Rises and Death Penalty Action is scheduled for Tuesday, just before the upcoming deadline, following the state's law designating the firing squad as its ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is urging Gov. Andy Beshear to authorize executions for more than a dozen death row inmates, including Ralph Baze. Baze was sentenced to death for the 1992 ...