In January, 1923, Lee Strasberg went to Al Jolson’s 59th Street Theatre to see “Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich,” a nineteenth-century Russian play about sixteenth-century Russian politics, performed, in ...

Prosecutors said he laced drinks and supplements with deadly poison in a revenge plot against his billionaire boss. Reporter A former gaming executive who prosecutors say turned an office power ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

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Tony Carruthers’s lawyers say no evidence ties him to 1994 crimes he was convicted of and he is mentally incompetent Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tennessee governor Bill Lee has ...

The execution of Tony Carruthers was called off May 21 after executioners failed to set an IV to administer the lethal injection. He had been scheduled to be executed in Riverbend Maximum Security ...

In August 2020, social media users circulated a photograph meme said to depict a priest giving the last rites to a Cuban farmer who was being executed because he "refused to work for the Castro regime ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state this year. Richard ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 21, for the ...

The execution of a Tennessee death row inmate has been postponed after staff were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal drug. Tony Carruthers, convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A Florida killer convicted of brutally stabbing ...