As Missouri awaited Gov. Mike Kehoe’s decision on whether to halt the execution of death row inmate Lance Shockley, students at Saint Louis University joined Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, ...

A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday ...

Samuel Lee Smithers, convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996, was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution this year in Florida.

Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children. For kids of people on death row, there ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Liberti N. Figueroa, 24, was sentenced to probation after being convicted of aggravated child endangerment in the 2023 death ...

Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers, a killer known as the “Deacon of Death,” on Tuesday evening for the 1996 murders of two women whose bodies were dumped ...

A man convicted of killing a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper in 2005 is dead after being executed by lethal injection Tuesday night at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional ...