Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially do so, starting July 1. Four other states – South Carolina, Utah, ...

Video of a Vacation Bible School dramatization in Lexington's Mt. Olivet Baptist Church has gone viral, drawing objections over its violent imagery. In the video, children in the pews watch and cheer ...

A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...

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June 25 (UPI) --Florida executed 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer on Thursday evening for the 1992 stabbing death of his wife, the state's ninth execution of 2026. Spencer, who was convicted in 1993 of ...

Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is scheduled to be executed for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. If the execution proceeds, Spencer will become the oldest person executed in Florida in modern ...

A British TikTok influencer is facing possible execution in Dubai after allegedly stabbing a man to death in what she says was an act of self-defense, according to the advocacy group Detained in Dubai ...

Used needles clinked into the plastic medical-waste bin in the death chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Tony Carruthers was strapped to a gurney for his scheduled ...

While the state is in legal limbo over its nitrogen gas executions, Alabama has scheduled a lethal injection for a man convicted of killing a child and recording it. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday ...

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

Delay triggered a bit of legal chaos in Atlanta courtroom with a series of unanswered questions in Stacey Ian Humphreys’ case. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney speaks at an emergency hearing at ...

A man convicted in 2007 for the murders of two Cobb County real estate agents has been scheduled to be executed in two weeks, the Georgia Department of Corrections announced. Cobb County Superior ...