HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

Speculation has been growing surrounding the fate of a high-ranking Iranian commander, Esmail Qaani as some unconfirmed reports allege the general has been executed by Iran for spying for Israel. The ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority to stop the execution of a man who was convicted ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was put to death Wednesday evening for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013, apologizing profusely to her older son who survived with ...

Florida has executed an inmate 35 years after he shot a police officer more than a dozen times during a traffic stop. Billy Leon Kearse was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, March 3, for the ...

Alabama Man Facing Execution for Deadly Robbery Asks for Clemency as He Didn't Kill Victim MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone ...

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Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...