The U.S. Department of Justice is reintroducing firing squads, electrocution, and other methods for federal executions. This policy change follows a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump ...

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Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, at 6 p.m. ET, following a final sweep of denials from the Florida Supreme Court. Unless a federal court steps in or ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—For Ohio to resume executions, state lawmakers would need to pass a “shield law” to prevent pharmaceutical companies from discovering that their drugs were used in lethal injections, ...

A Florida man convicted of setting his neighbor on fire after she discovered him breaking into her home was executed Tuesday, marking the latest in a concerning wave of death row executions in the ...

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

A Florida man convicted of setting his neighbor ablaze after she caught him burglarizing her home was executed Tuesday, the latest in a troubling surge of death row executions carried out in the ...

Ohio is one of America’s most important death penalty “swing states.” Although the ultimate punishment is legal there, no one has been executed in the state since 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to ...