A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Billy Leon Kearse, 53, became the third person put to ...

The case indicates that more than two weeks into the war, Iran continues its prosecution of foreigners. Sweden said its citizen did not get a fair trial. By Lynsey Chutel Iran on Wednesday executed a ...

Chadwick Willacy is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was convicted of bludgeoning, strangling, and setting Sather on fire after she ...

Alabama is set to execute an inmate this week who wasn't even in the building when the murder he was convicted of took place. Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton, 75, is set to be executed by a controversial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran's state media released footage on Thursday of the three men at their trial [Mizan News Agency] Iran has executed three men ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 17 years after the abduction and murder of North Port mother Denise Amber Lee, the 54-year-old man convicted of killing her is scheduled to be executed. Prosecutors said Michael King ...

A murderer refused to apologise for killing a young mum today — before he himself was execued on death row. Michael Lee King's final words — a ramble about "finding Jesus in prison" — were slammed by ...