Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. 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 ...

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 ...

Texas was scheduled to hold a hearing today to determine whether Andre Thomas is competent to be executed. But that hearing had to be called off, because the expert retained by the state to examine ...

A Texas death row inmate who killed his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son used his final moments before execution Wednesday to apologize to the woman’s surviving son — whom he stabbed 25 times ...

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 ...

When a 19-year-old wrestler and two other men were hanged in the holy city of Qom on Thursday, Iran’s theocratic regime was sending a message to both dissenters inside the country and opponents abroad ...

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 ...

A North Texas man faces 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 killings of ...

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years. Her execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026 — more than 30 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned ...

Cedric Ricks, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for stabbing his common-law wife and her 8-year-old son to death in their North Texas apartment, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening ...