US to allow firing squads, gas, and electrocution
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Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in North Texas.
Marlys Sather walked in on a neighbor burglarizing her home on Sept. 5, 1990. The neighbor, 24-year-old Chadwick Willacy, carried through with the robbery and left no witnesses.
A Florida man was executed Tuesday evening for killing a young mother who frantically called 911 from her attacker's cellphone while tied up in his car. Michael Lee King, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida ...
FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File) ATLANTA (CN ...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday night for a murder he did not commit or even witness. Charles “Sonny” Burton and five other men robbed an AutoZone in Talladega ...
Alabama is set to execute an inmate this week who wasn't even in the building when the murder he was convicted of took place. Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton, 75, is set to be executed by a controversial method using nitrogen gas on Thursday, March 12, for ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - One of the Lehigh Valley's most notorious killers has eluded the execution chamber again. Last month, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary Laurel Harry signed a notice of execution setting March 24, 2026, for the execution of ...
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 even the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of ...
The killing of 19-year-old Iranian wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi at the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard provides further “recognition” of a brutal regime, according to a long outspoken Iranian activist and ex-national coach. Mohammadi was ...