NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers on Thursday after his attorneys questioned whether the state's lethal injection drugs had expired and courts denied requests to ...

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A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin's girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, becoming the seventh person executed by the state this year.

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Florida has executed a death row inmate for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 21, for the ...

A man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter has been executed in Florida.

Arizona has executed a death row inmate for setting two people on fire more than 20 years ago, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever. The state executed Leroy McGill, 63, by lethal ...

An Arizona man convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline on him and setting him on fire was executed Wednesday, marking the first of three executions scheduled this week in the U.S. The ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A man who 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners ...

Florida accounted for nearly half of all U.S. executions in 2025, a year that saw the most executions nationwide since 2009. A new Amnesty International report notes a 78% global increase in ...