Iran has unleashed several new executions — with many more expected to come — over fears of another citizen-led uprising as the embattled regime fights for survival in its war against the US and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court.The court issued a stay in execution ...

The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the execution of former police officer James Duckett. Duckett was sentenced to death in 1988 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee. Duckett's ...

PHOENIX — Twenty-four years after murdering a man in an “especially cruel” way, a convict will face execution in May, according to the Arizona Supreme Court. In 2004, a jury found Leroy Dean McGill ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday paused next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer, who was convicted in 1988 of raping, choking and drowning an ...

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 ...