Nation Aug 29 Utah Supreme Court blocks firing squad execution of prisoner with dementia By Matthew Brown, Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press
Nation Aug 28 Florida carries out 11th execution of the year amid flurry of death warrants signed by DeSantis A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in a record 11th execution this year by the state of Florida. By Curt Anderson, Associated Press
Nation Aug 20 Man executed for 1982 murder in record 10th execution this year in Florida Bates was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted sexual battery in the June 14, 1982, killing of Janet Renee White in Bay County in the Florida Panhandle. By David Fischer, Associated Press
Nation Jul 31 Florida carries out record 9th execution of year on man convicted of killing his family A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year. His death Thursday marks a state record for a single-year execution total since the… By Curt Anderson, Associated Press
Nation Apr 11 South Carolina executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press
Mar 24 Supreme Court rejects appeal from Texas death row inmate By Associated Press The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli Escobar, even though Escobar's case is similar to that of an Oklahoma man, Richard Glossip, whose murder conviction the high… Continue reading
Mar 07 South Carolina prisoner is first in the U.S. to be executed by firing squad in 15 years By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years. Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch 7:48 Ethel Rosenberg’s family pushes Biden to exonerate her decades after her execution By John Yang, Harry Zahn In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed after being convicted as Soviet spies in a sensational Cold War espionage case. Now, a recently declassified document is seen as the strongest evidence yet of Ethel’s innocence. As Biden leaves office,… Continue watching
Dec 19 Oklahoma puts man to death by lethal injection in nation’s final execution of 2024 By Sean Murphy, Associated Press An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year. Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch 6:18 What’s behind a recent rise in executions in America after years of decline By Ali Rogin, Andrew Corkery While the execution of a Texas man was temporarily put on hold this week, more than 2,000 people remain on death row across the country. The Texas case has highlighted a recent increase in executions and prompted questions about how… Continue watching