He met Sandra Gallagher at a Van Nuys bar in September 1995. Her badly burned corpse was found in her truck a day later near ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. After his trial, ...

Benjamin Ritchie shot Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney in September 2000. According to court records, Ritchie jumped out ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: A ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

A man convicted of killing two women, one in Florida and another in California, has been scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed Tuesday by ...