First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed ...

Richard Knight, a Florida death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed May 21 after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a ...

Florida plans its sixth execution of 2026, continuing an accelerated schedule under Gov. Ron DeSantis. A record number of ...

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

Throughout the report, the Justice Department referenced past Supreme Court rulings in capital cases, noting that the court ...

John Wood, a death row prisoner in South Carolina, was ruled not competent for execution due to severe schizophrenia, ...

Tanner Horner's lawyers said he has autism, “various mental illnesses" and has been exposed to a “massive amount of lead.” ...