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A Florida man was executed Wednesday for breaking into a woman's home and stabbing her to death in 1986, a crime committed months after he was released from prison for rape.Darryl B. Barwick, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m.…

Oklahoma's new Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to ask the state's Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday to recommend sparing the life of death row inmate Richard Glossip, a highly unusual move for the state's top prosecutor's…

Florida executed a man known as the "ninja killer" on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey.Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection, the…

One of the exonerated Central Park Five defendants targeted for “execution” by Donald Trump in the 1980s, has one word for the former president: “Karma.” Yusef Salaam gave his take on Twitter after news of Trump’s indictment on some…

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee Huffington Post faced a wave of backlash for calling a convicted murderer a “political pawn” of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he used his final words to trash the governor. Multiple spokespeople for DeSantis…

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft.The Windsor town clerk…

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other crimes 20 years ago before authorities caught up to him in Texas after a manhunt. Scott James Eizember, 62, received a lethal…

A Missouri inmate was put to death Tuesday for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S.Amber McLaughlin, 49, was convicted of stalking and killing a former girlfriend, then…

Unless Missouri Governor Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.…

Calls to create a national firearm registry are growing in the wake of two police officers and a bystander being killed in Queensland.Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers floated the idea of setting up a registry last week after…