Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

Human rights groups have condemned Iran's hanging of three men in the first executions over January protests and warned they fear more executions to come. Authorities in Iran are trying "to frighten ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 16, denied a last-minute petition from Michael King, 54, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, March 17, by lethal injection. King faces execution for the ...

The execution of Billy Leon Kearse occurred 35 years after he murdered Fort Pierce Officer Danny Parrish. Following the murder, the Fort Pierce police department started a program to intervene with at ...

Texas has executed 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 attack ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, arguing he was deprived of choosing his trial defense and that the state ...

Billy L. Kearse is scheduled for execution for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish. Kearse's attorneys have filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution, ...

“All appear to have been relatively young men flung into the pit without care,” the University of Cambridge said of the human remains Cambridge Archaeological University of Cambridge archaeologists ...

The U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Iran, warning that dozens more people risk execution after the first death ...

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