Iran is seeking to execute a decorated Iranian wrestler for merely peacefully protesting against the regime in early January, prompting the U.S. State Department on Wednesday to demand that Tehran ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

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, ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

The family of detained Iranian protester Erfan Soltani have said his execution was postponed, as US President Donald Trump said he had received assurances that the “killing has stopped.” “We were told ...

The suit, filed on Jan. 8, argues that the new protocol — it relies on a single drug, pentobarbital, to induce respiratory and cardiac arrest, instead of the three-drug cocktail Tennessee used for ...

Judge pauses Stacey Humphreys’ execution again pending review of alleged conflicts on Georgia’s parole board. Defense says two parole board members had prior roles tied to Humphreys’ case, raising ...

A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys’ ...

A Georgia board has halted the execution of a death row inmate who attacked two real estate agents at work, forced them to strip naked and shot them execution-style in 2003. Stacey Humphreys, 52, had ...

A federal judge declined to halt the Dec. 17 execution of Stacey Humphreys, convicted of killing two real estate agents in 2003. Humphreys argued a COVID-era agreement delaying some executions should ...