In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it?

Eyes blinked, lips moved - the dark mystery of guillotine executions Posted: March 20, 2026 | Last updated: March 23, 2026 For centuries, the guillotine was considered one of the most humane methods ...

Joshua Duckett was three years old when his father was sent to Florida’s Death Row, convicted of raping, choking and drowning a fifth-grade girl while on duty as a police officer for the small rural ...

RAIFORD, Fla. — Billy Leon Kearse, the Fort Pierce man convicted of shooting and killing a police sergeant 35 years ago, was declared dead at 6:24 p.m. He declined his last meal in the hours before ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — New records from the governor’s office show Indiana paid $100,000 for execution drugs used in October — bringing the total amount the state has spent on pentobarbital to ...

New records from the governor’s office show Indiana paid $100,000 for execution drugs used in October – bringing the total amount the state has spent on pentobarbital to at least $1.275 million – and ...

Following a record 19 executions in Florida last year, Ronald Heath is scheduled Tuesday to be the first person put to death in 2026, for a 1989 murder in Alachua County. Heath, 64, is scheduled to be ...

For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris. Eugen Weidmann, a German drifter, had killed six ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out ...

The state is set to end the year with 19 executions, the most in a single year in the modern era of capital punishment. The entryway to Florida State Prison is seen in August. The prison houses the ...