Microsoft has expanded Excel’s Copilot with new interactive modes, including a chat/edit switcher and a plan mode for previewing multi-step changes before execution. Updates also add Python ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is ...

STARKE, Fla. — A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The federal government is moving to bring back death by firing squad. Let that sit for a second. This isn’t just about how executions happen, it’s really about how fast they happen, who they impact, ...

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James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...

The Florida Supreme Court issued a final ruling Thursday, clearing the way for the execution of James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, for the 1976 murder of his 13-year-old step-niece. In a unanimous decision, ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.