Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an 11-hour stay of execution for Florida man Edward James. James was convicted of killing a woman and raping and killing her 8-year-old granddaughter ...

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Edward Thomas James is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening The execution has been delayed until 8 p.m. No reason was provided The execution of a Florida man on death row ...

HER FIRST ON FIVE. WENDELL GRISSOM MURDERED 23 YEAR OLD AMBER MATTHEWS WHILE SHE WAS HOLDING HER FRIEND’S BABY. THAT BABY, HER SISTER AND MOTHER MADE IT OUT ALIVE. AND NOW, 20 YEARS LATER, THEY PLAN ...

March 20 (UPI) --Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom Thursday in the state's first execution of 2025. He was declared dead by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at 10:13 a.m ...

Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar situations. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan China has ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials, Hoffman ...

Edward James is scheduled to be executed by the state of Florida on Thursday evening Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously ...

The Trump appointee isn’t known for siding with death row prisoners. But the reason he gave for doing so in a Louisiana case makes it less surprising. By Jordan Rubin The Supreme Court on ...