A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Texas to carry out its 600th execution on Thursday, May 14. Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put ...

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Merlin (MRLN) announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with an existing fundamental institutional shareholder to raise $80M of equity capital via a private ...

The execution Thursday of James Hitchcock was the sixth so far in Florida this year, a stunning pace that has Florida leading the nation in executions in 2026 of Death Row inmates. Florida set a new ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed Thursday unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes at the last minute. Here’s what to know about the case of James Broadnax and his final appeal.

Despite massive support from rappers, scholars, and lawyers — plus a new confession from his cousin in the double-murder case that saw them both convicted — 37-year-old James Broadnax was executed by ...

Florida plans to execute James E. Hitchcock, which would be the state's sixth execution in 2026. The state has faced scrutiny over its accelerated pace of executions and its lethal injection protocols ...

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James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...