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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said ...

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 ...

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Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. The tool is highly ...

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BOISE, Idaho — The event organized by Worth Rises and Death Penalty Action is scheduled for Tuesday, just before the upcoming deadline, following the state's law designating the firing squad as its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

A court granted James Duckett’s request to test for DNA evidence after Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered his execution. James Aren Duckett is seen in court during his 1988 trial. He was sentenced to die for ...

Billy Leon Kearse, convicted in October 1991 in the Jan. 18, 1991, murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, and sentenced to death in March 1997, was executed the evening of March 3 after ...