In a split decision, a majority of justices upheld an appeals court decision overturning the man's conviction for a 2020 ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

Mangione fights to suppress diary and gun evidence as judge weighs key dispute in CEO murder case. Follow live.

Federal prosecutors counter Luigi Mangione's death penalty challenges, citing precedent in high-profile murder cases involving UnitedHealthcare CEO.

The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was shot moments after the attack and was hospitalized in serious condition.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was executed by lethal injection for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum in the small Florida town of East Palatka.

If the execution moves forward, Randolph will become the 17th inmate executed in Florida this year − a record − and the 44th in the U.S.

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the U.S., there has been a sharp reversal. If all the scheduled executions are carried out, that would make 2025 the year with the ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

Central Asia’s path to abolishing the death penalty was gradual but firm. In Kyrgyzstan, a moratorium on executions was introduced in 1998 and renewed every year until the 2007 referendum that ...