In his maiden address at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium after taking over as the Chief Minister, Mr. Vijay said a new era of a regime committed to “real secularism and social justice” commenced ...

In his first speech in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Tuesday (May 12, 2026) said that the House should treat the opinions of all political parties equally, ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

Arizona has executed a death row inmate for setting two people on fire more than 20 years ago, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever. The state executed Leroy McGill, 63, by lethal ...

TULSA, Okla. — Raymond Johnson was executed Thursday after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously rejected his request for clemency for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her infant ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for ...

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Johnson was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m.

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Independent news. Trusted by Texans. About The Texas Tribune | Staff | Contact | Send a Confidential Tip | Ethics | Republish Our Work | Jobs | Awards | Corrections | Strategic Plan | Downloads | ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin's girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, becoming the seventh person executed by the state this year.