Over the past decade, financial innovation has focused on one primary goal: moving money faster. Instant payment systems, blockchain networks, and stablecoins have dramatically compressed settlement ...

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 16, denied a last-minute petition from Michael King, 54, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, March 17, by lethal injection. King faces execution for the ...

The execution of Billy Leon Kearse occurred 35 years after he murdered Fort Pierce Officer Danny Parrish. Following the murder, the Fort Pierce police department started a program to intervene with at ...

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger. The governor of Alabama has ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

When a 19-year-old wrestler and two other men were hanged in the holy city of Qom on Thursday, Iran’s theocratic regime was sending a message to both dissenters inside the country and opponents abroad ...