Federal prosecutors were directed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi this week to pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year in New York City. Mangione allegedly shot Thompson as the executive was headed to a health care conference on Dec. 4, killing the…
A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him, and his arms flexed. He groaned two more times about 45 seconds…
The US House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to overturn a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would give the watchdog oversight of tech giants such as Apple, Google and X, that offer digital payment apps and wallets. Editorial This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team…
South Carolina is set to execute another death row inmate by firing squad, a little more than a month after a convicted murderer was executed the same way. The March 7 execution of Brad Sigmon marked the first execution by firing squad since 2010. Before Sigmon, only three people i the U.S. had been executed…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal magistrate judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison officials are unconstitutionally hiding parts of lethal injection executions from public view. The Associated Press, East Idaho News and The Idaho Statesman filed the lawsuit against the director…
Canada has confirmed that four of its citizens were executed in China earlier this year over drug-related charges. However, Beijing refused to recognise their Canadian citizenship, treating them solely as Chinese nationals under its legal system. Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly strongly condemned the executions, but China remains firm on its tough anti-drug policies. Show…
Oklahoma executed a man Thrusday for fatally shooting a woman 20 years ago during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. It was the…
A 53-year-old man convicted of murder was put to death by lethal injection in Arizona on Wednesday in the first execution in the southwestern U.S. state in more than two years. Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband. “Justice…
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state’s first execution in 15 years, The Associated Press reported. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person in the United States — all in Alabama, the only other state with a protocol for the…
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution, which would have been Louisiana’s first in 15…