The Florida Supreme Court set a Wednesday deadline for briefs to be submitted in a request for an independent analysis of DNA test results. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at Union ...

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, ...

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 ...

Texas is set to execute a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the ...

For nearly five decades, the family of 13-year-old Cynthia “Cindy” Driggers has lived through a cycle of trials, sentencing, and appeals that seemed destined to never end. That cycle moved toward a ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Life in prison without parole is the sentence for a man found guilty in the execution-style murder of a 25-year-old victim. Djaune Ferguson learned his fate Tuesday after ...

The Florida Supreme Court is deciding whether to allow further analysis of DNA evidence in the case of James Aren Duckett. Duckett was convicted in 1988 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl and had ...

DALLAS — James Broadnax remains scheduled for an execution later this month after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied his motion for a stay of execution, according to court documents obtained ...

Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a motion to test DNA evidence they say was not previously examined in the case of Tony Carruthers, a Shelby County man accused and convicted ...

LIVINGSTON — It’s almost time for the ceremony, and Tiana Krasniqi is changing into her wedding dress in the back of her Kia Soul, parked in the prison lot. She grabs her marriage license and her vows ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it won't consider another man's confession as a reason to pause a scheduled lethal injection in three weeks. James Broadnax was convicted of murdering ...

The Iranian regime executed more than 1,600 people last year — marking a three decade high not seen since the end of the Islamic Republic’s war against Iraq in 1989. The shocking figures were included ...