Raymond Johnson’s execution in Oklahoma is the first of five executions scheduled across the country over eight days.

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson's execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

EXECUTIONS by firing squads, electrocution and gassing have been approved in the US to speed up killings of America’s most heinous criminals. Death penalty protocols were expanded on Friday ...

James Broadnax died by lethal injection Thursday evening for the 2008 robbery and murders of two Christian music producers — after his cousin confessed to being the shooter earlier this year. Broadnax ...

At 6:20 p.m. on Thursday, the state executed 66-year-old Bryan Jennings for the murder of a 6-year-old Brevard County girl in 1979. He had no last words. He was sentenced to death after being ...

The nation's first execution of a person convicted in a "shaken baby syndrome" case was halted Thursday when Texas' highest criminal court ruled in the condemned man's favor. Robert Roberson, 58, had ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and how it is waiting for execution on Texas' death row. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A ...

The debate over whether it’s permissible to destroy alleged narco-terrorists in the Caribbean without a formal declaration of war by Congress has prompted some members of the tech community to make an ...