Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

Arizona Republicans are advancing a proposal to bring back firing squad executions, including as a mandatory option for those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida carried out its first execution of the year on Tuesday. Ronald Heath was executed for the murder of Michael Sheridan, ...

Ronald Palmer Heath was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder, robbery with a death weapon and multiple forgery charges.

In 2025 the United States executed 47 prisoners on death row, the highest number in 16 years. This figure makes Donald Trump the most prolific execution president in recent history; at the end of his ...

C’mon man, don’t do it,” were police officer Danny Parrish’s last words after Billy Kearse shot him 13 times. Kearse will be ...

Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting. Prison officials say 45-year-old Kendrick Simpson received a ...

A man in Florida has been arrested after he fatally shot his wife, saying he ‘would rather live in prison’ than ‘deal with ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A man who apologized for killing two men in a drive-by shooting after a nightclub altercation was set to be put to death Thursday in the first execution of the year in Oklahoma ...