France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer ...

A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in "excruciating" pain as he bled to death. None of the bullets directly ...

Courtesy Mikal Mahdi's attorneys COLUMBIA, S.C. Last month’s firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi was a “massive botch” that left the convicted murderer in excruciating, conscious pain for ...

Apparently, Maxwell thought things out methodically: from court-martial to execution, to burial. He knew the funeral parade Tom Clarke had put on for Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa the previous summer ...

“I would say (it affected us) quite drastically from the end result. Not only our energy, but our execution,” he said Thursday.

The execution, if carried out, will be the fourth in Florida this year under death warrants signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a fifth execution planned for May 15. Hutchinson, 62, has long claimed ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. His attorneys are ...

"While it is true that this case concerns Idaho's lethal injection execution procedures, it equally concerns the public's First Amendment right of access to the State's administration of the most ...

Langarneshin’s family had pleaded for clemency outside Evin Prison as the execution approached. His supporters pointed to confirmed alibis and a lack of evidence linking him to the crimes.