Alabama plans to execute Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton with nitrogen gas in March for a murder committed during a robbery of an AutoZone in 1991, the state's governor has announced. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey ...

The images of political prisoners, taken just before they were killed by Nazis in 1944, were put up for auction on eBay. The sale was pulled shortly thereafter. By Koba Ryckewaert and Niki Kitsantonis ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

Melvin Trotter, on Florida's death row for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, was executed by lethal injection Feb. 24, at Florida State Prison ...

STARKE — A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner was put to death Tuesday in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year after a record 19 executions in ...

Americans pay taxes throughout their lives. They may think they're done once they die. Not so. An estate tax can still be levied on things the deceased owned or had certain interests in when they die.

An annual festival in Andorra drew condemnation from the country’s small Jewish community after an effigy bearing the Israeli flag was staged in a mock trial and then hung and shot. The incident was ...

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FILE - Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File) (Curt Anderson, Copyright 2025 The ...

The killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in a joint US–Mexican operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, has unleashed a new wave of chaos and ...