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Execution

Divided Supreme Court dismisses Alabama's bid to execute inmate

  • May 21

Texas executes 600th inmate since death penalty was reinstated in 1976

  • May 17
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Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions

  • Apr 24

North Texas man executed for 2013 fatal stabbing

  • Mar 12

Texas man executed for 1998 murder of ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend

  • Jan 29

Texas man facing execution for killing his ex and her new boyfriend

  • Jan 28

Iran protests: Trump says he's been told 'killing' stopped

  • Jan 15

Death-eligible charge for Luigi Mangione must be dismissed: defense

  • Oct 11, 2025

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Texas man facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Tomball

  • Jan 28
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Texas appeals court again pauses execution of Robert Roberson in shaken baby case

  • Oct 9, 2025
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New execution date set for Texas man Robert Roberson in shaken baby syndrome case

  • Jul 16, 2025
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TX man executed for clerk's burning death during 2012 robbery

  • May 21, 2025
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Texas to execute man for 2004 murders of strip club manager and friend

  • Feb 13, 2025
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Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church

  • Feb 5, 2025
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New jabs traded about judge's involvement in death penalty case

  • Jan 9, 2025
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Motion filed to block death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying

  • Dec 20, 2024

Latest Stories

Texas appeals court again pauses execution of Robert Roberson in shaken baby case

Texas' top criminal court once again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, who prosecutors say hit and violently shook his 2-year-old daughter.

  • Oct 9, 2025

Tennessee executes inmate by lethal injection without deactivating his implanted defibrillator

Tennessee executed Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.

  • Aug 5, 2025

Tennessee plans to execute inmate amid concerns his heart implant will shock him repeatedly

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.

  • Aug 5, 2025

New execution date set for Texas man Robert Roberson in shaken baby syndrome case

A judge set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, who could become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

  • Jul 16, 2025
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Utah judge schedules execution by firing squad for a man with dementia

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

  • Jul 10, 2025