The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...

James Duckett has been temporarily spared ahead of his Tuesday execution. The state’s highest court could lift the order based on DNA results. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at ...

James Hitchcock is scheduled for execution on April 30 for the 1976 rape and murder of his 13-year-old step-niece. Hitchcock has been sentenced to death four separate times for the same crime due to ...

The execution for Lehigh Valley serial killer Harvey Robinson, who killed three woman and tried to kill two other people in the 1990s, has been formally stayed amid an ongoing death penalty moratorium ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court.The court issued a stay in execution ...

James Duckett was granted a rare stay of execution Thursday ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Tuesday. The state is asking for the stay to be lifted. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney for two Utah death row inmates, Michael Anthony Archuleta and Troy Michael Kell, argued in front of the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that they should always be able to ...

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 ...

Eight Olympians from multiple countries, including three gold medalists, have condemned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its response to the execution of Iranian wrestler Saleh Mohammadi.

James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl — wants the Florida Supreme Court to extend the pause on his ...

Iran has unleashed several new executions — with many more expected to come — over fears of another citizen-led uprising as the embattled regime fights for survival in its war against the US and ...

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it over with already. Jeremy Williams wants his execution fast-tracked, after a ...