Tag: death penalty

FLORENCE, Ariz. — Frank Jarvis Atwood spent more than half of his life on death row. The condemn killer of an 8-year-old Tucson girl in 1984 was executed Wednesday. Arizona ...

OKLAHOMA - A federal judge rejected a legal challenge on Monday to Oklahoma's execution protocol. The ruling said the state does not violate a constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Carl Wayne Buntion was executed at the Texas state prison in Huntsville on Thursday. He murdered a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ...

A man who sold copies of Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game” in North Korea has been sentenced to death by firing squad while the students have been sentenced to five ...

DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. -- Steven Wiggins was convicted Aug. 5 for the murder of Dickson County Sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Baker, which occurred during a 2018 traffic stop. It took just ...

Columbia, South Carolina — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill last week requiring death row inmates to choose between death by the electric chair or firing squad. The ...

Washington D.C. — New Mexico Representative Yvette Herrell (R) is expected to introduce a bill this week that would make it a federal crime for someone to murder a federal, state or local law ...

ATMORE, Alabama. -- An Alabama inmate on Thursday won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the United States Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal spiritual ...

ATMORE, Ala. – An Alabama inmate is scheduled for execution Thursday night for the murders of three police officers who were shot by another suspect in a hail of gunfire ...

In a sobering revelation just before he was executed Thursday evening, a Texas inmate revealed what police officers have touted for years; drugs are NOT a victimless crime. We see ...