A corrections deputy died after being shot while off-duty on Monday night, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

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All executions have been stayed in Montana since 2015 because the state requires the use of an "ultra-fast-acting barbiturate" that is no longer available.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of ...

Susan Carney’s professional life has been one marked by a continuum of “crime and punishment.” Not her own transgressions, ...

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary was severely beaten and left for dead but survived the attack.

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method amounts to torture.

A US man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death this — and uttered some unexpected last words prior to being ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.