Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

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Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for Michael King, who was convicted of the 2008 kidnap, rape, and murder of Denise Amber Lee. Lee's case, which included her own 911 call from her abductor's car, ...

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Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Melvin Trotter, on Florida's death row for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, was executed by lethal injection Feb. 24, at Florida State Prison ...

FLORIDA — With just 33 days between the signing of his death warrant and his scheduled execution, Billy Kearse faces a compressed legal timeline that has sparked renewed concerns over due process ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

Two recent decisions from the British Columbia Court of Appeal, Kroeger v. Bush Estate, 2026 BCCA 16, and Lewis v. Jack, 2026 BCCA 18, provide timely guidance on two recurring pressure points in ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...

Ronald Heath was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery with a death weapon and multiple forgery charges in connection with the 1989 slaying of a salesman in Gainesville. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan.