MOMENCE, Ill. (WLS) -- A suspect in the murder of a bar owner in Momence has waived extradition after being arrested in Indiana. Julius E. Burkes Jr., 47, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop is set to be Florida’s third execution of 2026, keeping the state on pace to match or possibly ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to ...

INDIANAPOLIS (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional ...

The man responsible for the 1998 double murder of a Houston mother and her boyfriend is scheduled for execution in Huntsville on Wednesday. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was convicted of murdering ...

Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent in ...

Posthumous Exoneration-Texas In this photo provided by the Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library, Tommy Lee Walker, a Black man from Texas, is fingerprinted after his arrest in ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton — who, according to his attorneys, now primarily uses a wheelchair — for his conviction in the 1991 murder at a ...

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee has called for the public execution of Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of killing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk last year. Lee shared a Fox News story on X Monday night ...

Detained Iranian protester Erfan Soltani, whose execution did not take place on Wednesday as some had feared, is in good physical health and has been able to meet with his family, according to a ...