When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they typically think of torture (or Monty Python), and for good reason. Between 1478 and 1834, Catholic monarchs in Spain and Spanish territories ...

Java and JavaScript are entirely different languages despite their similar names. Java is compiled and widely used for ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas inmate Charles Victor Thompson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Jan 28, the first Texas execution in 2026. Thompson, ...

This 2025 photo provided by Matt Schulz shows Charles "Sonny" Burton, who is facing execution in Alabama for a 1991 murder during a robbery, in which he was not the triggerman, at the Holman ...

North Korea is executing schoolchildren for watching South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop, including Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game,” according to Amnesty International. Escapees told the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend received a ...

A man has been arrested following the killing of a 30‑year‑old mom who was shot “execution‑style” while opening the bar she owned near Chicago, police said. Courtney Drysdale, a mother-of-one, had ...

HUNTSVILLE — The father of a man slain in 1998 turned away from a barred window after he watched convicted killer Charles Victor Thompson utter his final words and die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Charles Victor Thompson was executed by lethal injection Wednesday after serving almost three decades on Texas Death Row. Credit: April Towery A man convicted in the 1998 double murder of his ...