The execution of a former police officer convicted of murdering and raping a young girl nearly 40 years ago will remain on hold after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied the state’s request to ...

James Hitchcock is scheduled for execution on April 30 for the 1976 rape and murder of his 13-year-old step-niece. Hitchcock has been sentenced to death four separate times for the same crime due to ...

James Duckett was granted a rare stay of execution Thursday ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Tuesday. The state is asking for the stay to be lifted. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on ...

The execution for Lehigh Valley serial killer Harvey Robinson, who killed three woman and tried to kill two other people in the 1990s, has been formally stayed amid an ongoing death penalty moratorium ...

The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court.The court issued a stay in execution ...

Eight Olympians from multiple countries, including three gold medalists, have condemned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its response to the execution of Iranian wrestler Saleh Mohammadi.

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it over with already. Jeremy Williams wants his execution fast-tracked, after a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney for two Utah death row inmates, Michael Anthony Archuleta and Troy Michael Kell, argued in front of the Utah Supreme Court Wednesday that they should always be able to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. James Broadnax will soon take his last breath. For the last 17 years, the convicted murderer has been on death row, with ...

When 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee was kidnapped, raped, strangled and drowned in the small Florida city of Mascotte nearly 40 years ago, a surprising suspect emerged: a rookie cop named James Duckett ...

An execution warrant has been issued by the Arizona Supreme Court for Leroy Dean McGill. McGill was convicted of killing Charles Perez and the attempted murder of another victim. McGill is scheduled ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday paused next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer, who was convicted in 1988 of raping, choking and drowning an ...