Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

The 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships have concluded at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. The action kicked off ...

For example, during Alabama's first nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in January 2024, onlookers reported that Smith appeared conscious for several minutes, exhibiting convulsions and ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of a man who killed four members of his family in Elkview in 2020. Gavin Smith, who is 21 now and ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Anti-death penalty activists place signs along the road heading to Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., ahead of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.

Sanders is on trial for child sex crimes that authorities say he committed against some of his students while he was a teacher at Wallace A. Smith Elementary School, and in his class.

SANFORD, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Lee County Sheriff's Office is offering a $10,000 reward tied to a 30-year-old murder case. The sheriff's office said Willard Eugene Smith is wanted in the 1995 murder ...

Testimony continued Friday in the trial of Duane Sanders, who was teaching first grade at Wallace A. Smith Elementary in Ooltewah. Sanders faces 19 criminal counts, including continuous sexual ...

It orders a new trial for Jose Lopez Jr., now 53, in the stabbing death of Shane Smith, 20, on Barnum Avenue on Oct. 1, 2010. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...