Florida is set to execute a death row inmate for the "brutal and prolonged" rape and murder of a beloved convenience store manager who interrupted him during a robbery nearly 40 years ago. Richard ...

A Florida man who raped and murdered his next-door neighbor after inviting her over for coffee is set to become the 15th inmate executed in the state this year, nearly double Florida's previous record ...

A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bryant is the third person executed by firing ...

A former Marine convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl more than four decades ago was executed Thursday night in Florida. Bryan Jennings was convicted and sentenced to death twice for the 1979 murder ...

A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 15th execution in Florida this year. Norman Mearle Grim Jr. was pronounced dead at 6 ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student has been executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Charles Crawford, 59, had ...

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For the third time in less than a year, Indiana officials will execute a convicted murderer. This time it will be Roy Lee Ward, the Perry County man who killed 15-year-old Heritage Hills High School ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

A man sentenced to death for a 1990 double murder was executed in Florida on Tuesday, marking the state’s 13th execution this year and surpassing its previous annual record. Victor Tony Jones, 64, was ...