Florida executes its oldest death row prisoner for killing woman he met at New Year's Eve party

Florida is set to execute a 74-year-old man, its oldest inmate in over a century, just weeks after executing another inmate ...
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Tennessee plans rare execution of a woman. She's fighting back.

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...
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Man convicted of killing a woman and her 4-year-old daughter is executed in Florida

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state ...
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Executions nearly doubled in the U.S. last year, and soared abroad

The number of executions around the globe spiked to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new report from Amnesty International, with state-sanctioned killings nearly doubling in the United States in ...

Idaho is first to use firing squads as primary state execution method

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...