The execution of an Alabama prisoner on Jan. 25 involved the first new death penalty method employed in decades and the first execution in the U.S. of 2024. Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was ...

Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this year, as a Newsweek map shows. If an execution scheduled for ...

Last year saw a massive rise in the number of executions in Saudi Arabia, doubling year on year, according to a new report by a Saudi rights group. The Berlin-based European Saudi Organisation for ...

Florida carried out only one execution this year – down sharply from six in 2023 – although the state led the nation with the most new death sentences ordered by juries, according to a year ...

Two human rights groups condemned Saudi Arabia's soaring use of the death penalty on Thursday after the kingdom carried out the highest number of executions on record last year. Reprieve and the ...

The U.S. has two executions scheduled this week—if both go ahead, it will bring the number of inmates put to death across the country in 2024 to 25. Joseph Corcoran, 49, is scheduled to die on ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 1997 killing of four people including his brother and his sister’s fiancé was put to death on Wednesday in the state’s first execution in 15 years. Joseph ...

CBS Indianapolis affiliate WTTV reports that officials said the execution process started just after midnight. Corcoran was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital ...

But the editor of the Indiana Capital Chronicle posted on X after the early Wednesday execution that Corcoran put one of the outlet’s reporters on his own list of permitted witnesses and she was ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is proud that the state leads the country in a specific category -- executions. Marshall posted a screenshot on X of an article written by AL.com’s Ivana ...

The nation’s death penalty watchdog group released its annual report Thursday, showing Alabama led the country in executions in 2024. It’s the first time Alabama has executed more people than ...

If he is put to death as scheduled Wednesday, it will be the state’s first execution since 2009. In that time, 13 executions were carried out in Indiana but those were initiated and performed by ...