A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the victim’s family, who agreed to spare her life. Goli Kouhkan, now 25, has ...

A child bride who was to be executed this month in Iran had her life spared after the parents of her late husband agreed to forgive her in exchange for blood money worth about 8 billion tomans (about ...

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A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death during a home invasion robbery more than 30 years ago was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Asked if he had any last words, Geralds addressed someone by ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

Days before the execution of convicted murderer Stacey Ian Humphreys was scheduled to take place, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles suspended it in a Monday order signed by Parole Board Chair ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols picked his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. Nichols, 64, is to die by lethal injection ...

Florida is set to execute Frank Athen Walls, which will be the 19th execution in the state this year. This number shatters Florida's previous record of eight executions in a single year. Under Gov.

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade. The number of death row inmates executed across the U.S. spiked dramatically ...

A federal judge declined to halt the Dec. 17 execution of Stacey Humphreys, convicted of killing two real estate agents in 2003. Humphreys argued a COVID-era agreement delaying some executions should ...