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When Republican Jim Pillen becomes Nebraska's governor next month, one of his first acts will likely be to name his predecessor and biggest supporter to fill an open U.S. Senate seat.Pillen was elected in November in large part…

The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri's governor for mercy, citing mental health issues. Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare…

A man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl was put to death by lethal injection in Mississippi on Wednesday, becoming the second inmate executed by the state in 10 years.A coroner pronounced Thomas Edwin Loden…

A member of the Taliban security forces stands guard at a checkpoint along a street in Jalalabad, December 6, 2022. AFP via Getty…

Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, in an August 5, 1999 file photo. Miller was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999 workplace rampage.…

A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother was executed Tuesday night.Kevin Johnson, 37, died after an injection of pentobarbital at the state…

Alabama prison staff strapped an inmate to a death chamber gurney, despite a court order in place at the time blocking the execution from going forward, and later subjected him to numerous needle jabs, including in the neck and…

A 19-year-old Missouri woman will not be allowed to witness her father's execution after a judge's ruling on Friday.Kevin Johnson faces execution on Nov. 29 for the 2005 killing of Kirkwood, Missouri police officer William McEntee.…

A 19-year-old woman is asking a federal court to allow her to watch her father's death by injection, despite a Missouri law barring anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution.Kevin Johnson faces execution on Nov. 29 for the 2005…

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.Ivey's office issued a statement saying she…