Last Thursday night, Debbie Biesack left a meeting of the Wake County chapter of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (PFADP) and headed back to her home in Fuquay-Varina, confident that a ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Bradford County for ...

Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, a case that could carry the death penalty, which has not been used in California for nearly two decades ...

A death row inmate's execution was dramatically suspended just days after ordering his last meal. Stacey Humphreys, 52, was due to be executed via lethal injection today over the murders of real ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

It has varied over the decades, as public opinion sways for and against it. Hangings were frequent in colonial times, but by the mid-1800s some states had abolished the death penalty altogether. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Denise Truscello/Getty; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of ...

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead in their Los Angeles home Prosecutors say ...