The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan says the president is fixated on becoming a "great man of history" during his ...

On December 1, 1934, Sergei Kirov was shot inside the Smolny Institute by Leonid Nikolaev, an unstable former party worker carrying a revolver. Kirov was one of Stalin’s closest friends, but his ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

Four death row inmates could be executed, as part of a move that could end a 65-year pause in military executions. The Army has prepared for the possibility of carrying out executions of the ...

A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially do so, starting July 1. Four other states – South Carolina, Utah, ...

A former Florida prison warden who oversaw executions is urging current corrections workers to refuse to participate in them. The author, a veteran who voted for Republican candidates, argues that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIAMI (AP) — A 74-year-old man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife became the oldest person executed in Florida's modern ...

MIAMI — A 74-year-old man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife became the oldest person executed in Florida’s modern history on Thursday, and the state is scheduled to execute another 74-year-old ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...

MIAMI — Florida executed its oldest death row inmate Thursday, carrying out the state’s ninth execution of 2026 as religious leaders continued urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to halt the use of the death ...