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Kenneth Eugene Smith Alabama Department of Corrections Atmore, Alabama — Alabama's execution of a man convicted in the 1988…

An appellate court on Thursday night ordered a halt to the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife, but the state is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to proceed…

A Texas inmate who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago was executed on Wednesday, after courts rejected his appeals over claims of religious freedom violations and indifference to his…

One of those matches that is difficult to disseminate, simply because there is very little left to say after such a limp and inane showing. For a side that…

A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers' appeals that he should not be put to death because he had a history of mental illness.Tracy Beatty, 61, received a…

Undated photo provided by Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Tracy Beatty.  Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP…

Mumbai, The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena on Thursday slammed the Eknath Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Maharashtra for what it claimed handing over only 2,000 recruitment letters at an event here and said…