Secretary Gary Westcott speaks at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Louisiana has placed a deposit on a lethal injection drug with a secret supplier as it prepares to execute condemned killer Todd Wessinger, the state corrections…
The Indiana Parole Board on Wednesday recommended that Gov. Mike Braun deny clemency to death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit following competing appeals from the parents of the two children he killed in a 2010 house fire. The unanimous recommendation came just…
Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Toforest Johnson, whose conviction for the murder of an off-duty Jefferson County sheriff's deputy in 1995 has faced years of questions over the conduct of prosecutors and the reliability of a key…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted another death row prisoner's sentence to life in prison with no opportunity for parole. Toforest Johnson has been serving his sentence for the 1995 capital murder of Deputy Sheriff William Hardy for the past 28 years.
PARK CITY, Utah — DNA connects serial killer Ted Bundy to the death of a Utah teenager, authorities announced Tuesday, more than 50 years after her body was discovered by a hunter. Bundy has been dead since 1989, but the tally of his…
President Donald Trump has amplified a Texas pastor’s argument that livestreaming the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would reinforce the value of human life, intensifying a debate over the planned broadcast of the military execution. Robert Jeffress, senior…
A Flagler County judge sentenced Jermaine Williams Sr. to death Monday for the fatal stabbing of his wife outside their home in 2024. The decision follows an 11-1 jury recommendation in July, which came after jurors convicted Williams of first-degree murder for…
Soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas are scheduled to lift their rifles and shoot one of their fellow citizens, who will have to be lifted out of his wheelchair to make the execution work. The sheer giddiness that the Trump…
The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV…
In a rare move, Gov. Ron DeSantis has withdrawn a death warrant to allow an inmate to live. William Lee Thompson, convicted of the 1976 Miami kidnapping, rape, and murder of 23-year-old Sally Ivester, was spared in a letter DeSantis sent…
Capital punishment and Republicans: federal executions and the firing squad, executions in Republican-led states, new methods, and pushes to expand the death penalty.
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