Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

WASHINGTON − Justice Sonia Sotomayor called Florida’s record on lethal injections “deeply troubling,” even as she joined the Supreme Court’s Feb. 24 decision clearing the way for the state’s latest ...

Melvin Trotter is scheduled for execution for the 1986 murder of a 70-year-old shop owner in Palmetto. Trotter's attorneys have filed multiple appeals, including one currently before the U.S. Supreme ...

Florida has executed an inmate 35 years after he shot a police officer more than a dozen times during a traffic stop. Billy Leon Kearse was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, March 3, for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People gather outside the Alabama Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 16, 2026, to urge Gov. Kay Ivey to grant ...

Melvin Trotter was executed for the 1986 murder of Virgie Langford in Palmetto, Florida. His attorneys argue he was intellectually disabled, citing early school records and IQ tests. Courts have ...

A Florida man who prosecutors say wrestled a police officer’s service weapon away during a 1991 traffic stop and fatally shot him was executed Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his ...

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Circuit Court judge has ordered that Gary Wayne Sutton, the man who was convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties, be evaluated by state ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for former police officer James Duckett, convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Duckett's execution is the fifth scheduled in ...

Florida has scheduled multiple executions for March 2026, including those of Billy Leon Kearse and James Duckett. James Duckett, a former police officer, was sentenced for the 1987 rape and murder of ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by ...

Florida executed 53-year-old Billy Kearse at 6:24 p.m. Tuesday for the 1991 murder of a Fort Pierce police officer during a traffic stop, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. His last ...