President Donald Trump has called for Decarlos Brown Jr. to receive the death penalty for the alleged murder of Iryna Zarutska. “The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace and safety, should be given a ‘Quick’ (there is no doubt!) Trial, and only awarded…
The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate’s upcoming execution, after the inmate’s attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client’s worsening dementia should spare him from capital punishment. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three…
An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a lawsuit challenging the relatively new and controversial execution method that uses lethal gas to cause suffocation, arguing its application is unconstitutionally cruel — something…
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they would seek the death penalty against a Washington state woman accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a traffic stop in January after she was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge. Teresa Youngblut, 21, is accused of fatally shooting David Maland on Jan. 20…
Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect. Experts say it marked the first time a man has been put to death with a working heart device in his chest. Byron Black was executed after a back-and-forth…
A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause “chaos,” state attorneys said in an appeal. The argument was one of several in a filing Wednesday that seeks to overturn an order to deactivate Byron Black’s…
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that America will work out a deal with China where Beijing could sentence those who transport fentanyl drug into Washington to death. Trump said that the tariffs he has imposed on China will act like a penalty to make up for the losses suffered by the US due…
Starke, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. It would be the 26th execution in the U.S. this year. There were 25 nationwide in all of 2024. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled…
Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates’ deaths will bring the national total of executions…