Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump's presidency
October 03, 2023
A federal judge has denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit the drugs he's to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe
October 06, 2023
A Texas man who questioned the evidence given to the jury that sentenced him to death for killing an 80-year-old woman decades ago has been executed
October 10, 2023
Texas’ top criminal appeals court has stopped the scheduled execution of a Texas inmate who had been condemned for killing another prisoner more than 26 years ago
October 26, 2023
A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false expert testimony has been executed for killing a man during a robbery decades ago
November 09, 2023
Alabama has executed an inmate for the shooting death of a man during a 1993 robbery
November 16, 2023
An annual report on capital punishment says more Americans now believe the death penalty is administered unfairly
December 01, 2023
Just a few months after he took office, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium to halt federal executions — a stark contrast after his predecessor carried out 13 in six months
January 13, 2024
An Alabama execution this week would be the first in the nation to use nitrogen gas
January 22, 2024
A peace group with close ties to the Vatican said on Tuesday it will appeal to European businesses and tourists to boycott the U.S. state of Alabama if it went
January 23, 2024
Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has agreed to back a move in Parliament to abolish the death penalty
February 07, 2024
Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas
February 16, 2024
A U.S. appeals court panel has declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates
February 23, 2024
A Texas inmate who has long said he’s innocent and claims that his conviction more than 20 years ago was based on false testimony and questionable evidence is facing execution for fatally shooting two people, including his cousin
February 28, 2024
An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years
March 11, 2024
A federal appeals court has ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias
March 21, 2024
A federal appeals court on Thursday directed a trial judge to assess whether two jurors in Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's 2015 trial were biased and
April 26, 2024
A Florida man will soon learn whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison for fatally shooting five women in a bank in 2019
May 19, 2024
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has turned down a clemency request for condemned inmate David Hosier, a move that likely clears the way for his execution
June 10, 2024
Sweden said on Thursday it had called in Iraq's charge d'affaires in Stockholm to protest against a death sentence handed down to a Swedish citizen in Iraq.
June 28, 2024
Two more solders have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after they fled battles in conflict-torn North Kivu
July 05, 2024
Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez was only 20 minutes away from being executed when the U.S. Supreme Court granted his request to stay his lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville
July 17, 2024
Boeing factory workers are voting whether to strike and shut down aircraft production
Durex makes India condom push for women, rural consumers
Australia introduces bill to step up fight against hate crimes
Russian hawk pushes case for Putin to toughen policy on nuclear weapons
Thai consumer confidence drops to 13-month low in August as growth slows
Billionaire's spacewalk with SpaceX delayed several hours hundreds of miles above Earth
Murdoch succession battle to play out in Nevada courtroom
Pac-12 targeting Boise St., Fresno St., San Diego St., Colorado St. for rebuild, AP sources say
Reggie Bush was at his LA-area home when 3 male suspects attempted to break in