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 ...

EVER SINCE the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence which can, cheaply and almost instantly, turn a short query in plain English into a workable software app or a data-rich ...

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A man who was executed after being found guilty in a rape and murder case in 1953 near Dallas Love Field airport has been exonerated. Now, 70 years later, Tommy Lee Walker was declared “innocent” by a ...

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, at about 9 a.m. Central time on Saturday morning. A video shared with The New York Times by a witness and her ...

Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend received a ...

A Texas man sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend has become the first person executed in the United States this year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

President Donald Trump pardoned 21 people Friday, multiple outlets report, including a banker whose daughter gave $3.5 million to the president’s super PAC—the latest pardons and commutations in Trump ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend has become 1st person executed in US this year.