Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Three young men were hanged in Iran last week, raising alarm that a wave of executions may be underway as authorities facing ...

What, exactly, is supposed to end when an execution is over? For many families of murder victims, the public language ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida’s first execution of 2026 is set to take place in February, following a record year for executions in the state. Gov. Ron ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

An Idaho representative seeks to shield execution team members, and grant greater power to the state prison director over ...

The Republican governor commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton. Burton had been set for execution on Thursday, March 12.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner was put to death Tuesday in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year after a record 19 ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849 and houses Texas' execution chamber. Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday. Charles Victor ...

The Florida Supreme Court has temporarily halted the execution of James Aren Duckett, a former police officer convicted of ...

FILE - Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File) (Curt Anderson, Copyright 2025 The ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner was put to death Tuesday in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year after a record 19 ...