The state is set to end the year with 19 executions, the most in a single year in the modern era of capital punishment. The entryway to Florida State Prison is seen in August. The prison houses the ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during a home‑invasion robbery, and later confessing to three other killings, was executed Thursday evening. It was Florida's 19th execution so far ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

The United States has seen a dramatic acceleration in state-sanctioned killings this year, reaching a total of 46 executions so far in 2025, a level not witnessed in more than a decade. This figure ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --The United States had the highest number of executions in about 15 years this year due to an increase in Florida despite historically low support for the form of punishment, the Death ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...

Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The execution of a Georgia man scheduled for Wednesday has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University ...

A Georgia board has halted the execution of a death row inmate who attacked two real estate agents at work, forced them to strip naked and shot them execution-style in 2003. Stacey Humphreys, 52, had ...

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...