New photos have emerged of the Simi Valley doctor and his wife in happier times — before they were executed in broad daylight in the garage of their $1.3 million home. Dr. Eric Cordes, 63, and Vicki ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have carried out a public execution in the eastern city of Khost KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the "brutal and prolonged" rape and murder of a beloved convenience store manager who interrupted him during a robbery nearly 40 years ago. Richard Barry ...

Sen. Mark Kelly said Monday he and his family have seen threats to their lives increase since President Trump called for the Arizona Democrat and a group of other Democratic lawmakers to be executed ...

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in the ...

GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a "summary ...

Around 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution, the largest crowd for a hanging in early American history. The crime? Sedition. Thomas Hickey, a member of George Washington’s personal guard, was ...

A death row inmate endured a horrific botched execution when one of the electric chair's straps broke - engulfing him in flames and filling the air with the stench of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans ...