Execution

The 50-year-old convicted murderer was executed, despite the children of his victim urging the state to spare his life.

Jarome Bell lost in Tuesday's GOP primary in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District—a district that Republicans see as key to taking back the House.

Police discovered shell casings where the victim's body was found, and believe he was shot at the location, not dumped there.

In his Sunday sermon, Pastor Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church said that all gay people in America should be "lined up" and executed.

The Arizona Supreme Court struck down an attempt to repeal Clarence Dixon's death sentence.

Citing four claims made by Lucio's attorneys, an appeals court sent the Texas mom's case back to a trial court two days before her scheduled execution.

Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after the infant fell down the stairs, is set to be executed next week.

Smith, 72, was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife Judith Smith, 35, and her sons.

A South Carolina prisoner was faced with what he called "two unconstitutional methods of execution," the electric chair or carried out by firing squad.

The reported killing comes as Russian forces have been accused of committing brutal war crimes against Ukrainian civilians this weekend.

The Court ruled 8-1 to overturn an earlier decision that rejected John Ramirez's request to have his pastor lay hands on him and audibly pray while he dies.

South Carolina is now one of a small number of states that allows death by firing squad, joining Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.

Investigators are looking into reports that mourners were shot after a wake after video was circulated on social media.

Within a span of the last four months, the state has now executed four prisoners, one of which reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.

The woman's attorneys say she was wrongfully convicted for the accidental death of her 2-year-old daughter.

The chamber was built in 2008, but there have been no executions in the state since 2006.

The Alabama Attorney General's Office said it would appeal. Reeves was scheduled to be executed on January 27 by lethal injection, according to the opinion.

The brothers are facing animal cruelty charges in connection with the feline deaths, according to local law enforcement officials.

After a federal judge's ruling, Donald Grant is scheduled to be executed later this month, and Gilbert Postelle is set to be executed next month.

James Coddington was restored as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Oklahoma's lethal injection process after choosing a firing squad as an alternate method.

"We need to get back to our patriotic, liberty-loving roots. What did they used to do to traitors if they were convicted by a court?" Malgeri said.

Representatives Jamie Raskin and Ayanna Pressley requested a briefing on the results of the review of federal execution policies that was initiated in July.

Authorities found the body of Felicia Cox, who went missing in 2007, after her brother-in-law admitted to killing her shortly before his Nov. 17 execution.

Stouffer was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning. His final words were: "My request is that my father forgive them. Thank you."

One of the state's botched executions made a death row inmate suffer for 45 minutes before he finally died. Normally, the onset of death only takes 10 minutes.

The sister of a man on death row in Saudi Arabia for unwittingly being a drug mule asked Lewis Hamilton to speak about him at his upcoming F1 race.

A Texas emergency room physician told the judge in court, "I don't believe the condemned would feel anything that would approximate pain."

Mississippi carried out its first execution in over nine years after states have struggled to find drugs needed for lethal injection.

The governor stepped in ahead of Julius Jones' scheduled execution, which was to take place Thursday afternoon.

Jones, 41, of Oklahoma is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 1999 killing of businessman Paul Howell. He has always maintained he was set up.