Chinese authorities have executed a man convicted of using poison to kill a billionaire gaming tycoon linked to the Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” over a professional dispute, local media reported Tuesday. Xu Yao was found guilty of killing Lin Qi, the founder of the Shanghai-based Yoozoo Games, which holds the film adaptation rights for…
A collage of former defence ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu Under Premier Xi Jinping, the Chinese government has sentenced two former senior officials to death on corruption charges. Former Chinese defence ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges, News.Az reports, citing Premium Times….
A death row inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting a U.S. airman and his girlfriend and later confessed to three other killings is now scheduled to die by lethal injection next month in Florida, under the terms of a death warrant signed Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis has authorized a record number of…
A South Carolina man convicted of killing three people over five days more than 20 years ago was executed by a firing squad on Friday evening. Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed for killing a man in his home and writing “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim’s blood. He was pronounced…
A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life and announced his decision to commute Wood’s sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tremane Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to receive clemency in the state in the…
Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country’s use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed this year. Forty-one executions have been carried out so far in 2025, and, without intervention from government officials or the courts, another six…
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State…
A death row inmate in Missouri is set to be executed Tuesday after the state’s governor denied his clemency petition. Lance Shockley, 48, was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a Missouri state trooper in 2005, court records show. Shockley has maintained his innocence for the last 20 years, as his lawyers argued in…
A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, “I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing.” Anthony Boyd, 53, has been on death row in Alabama for the last three decades. He was convicted in 1995 of capital…
If Christa Gail Pike’s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike’s attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to…