Tag: execution

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 ...

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 ...

SOUTH CAROLINA - In March the state of South Carolina was given the green light to firing squad executions. The method was codified into state law last year after a ...

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 ...

UPDATE April 22, 2021 A woman allegedly executed her ex-girlfriend in broad daylight in Brooklyn on Wednesday in a sudden, brazen attack that was captured on surveillance video. The victim, identified as ...

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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A 27-year-old Fayetteville police officer who was “ambushed and executed” as he sat in his patrol car outside the police department earlier this month was shot 10 ...

Arkansas executed two condemned murderers Monday night, becoming the first state in 17 years to carry out two death sentences in one day.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has set execution dates for eight death row inmates, even though the state lacks one of three drugs needed to put the men to death.