Tennessee’s governor granted a one-year stay of execution for Tony Carruthers after his lethal injection was halted Thursday when officials struggled to find a vein for more than an hour. Maria ...

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 ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Texas to carry out its 600th execution on Thursday, May 14. Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he directed his administration to “restor[e] the death penalty ...

Merlin (MRLN) announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with an existing fundamental institutional shareholder to raise $80M of equity capital via a private ...

The execution Thursday of James Hitchcock was the sixth so far in Florida this year, a stunning pace that has Florida leading the nation in executions in 2026 of Death Row inmates. Florida set a new ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed Thursday unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes at the last minute. Here’s what to know about the case of James Broadnax and his final appeal.

Despite massive support from rappers, scholars, and lawyers — plus a new confession from his cousin in the double-murder case that saw them both convicted — 37-year-old James Broadnax was executed by ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...