Merlin (MRLN) announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with an existing fundamental institutional shareholder to raise $80M of equity capital via a private ...

The execution Thursday of James Hitchcock was the sixth so far in Florida this year, a stunning pace that has Florida leading the nation in executions in 2026 of Death Row inmates. Florida set a new ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed Thursday unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes at the last minute. Here’s what to know about the case of James Broadnax and his final appeal.

Despite massive support from rappers, scholars, and lawyers — plus a new confession from his cousin in the double-murder case that saw them both convicted — 37-year-old James Broadnax was executed by ...

James Broadnax, convicted of killing two music producers outside a Garland studio in 2008, was executed today by lethal injection. Broadnax was 20 years old when he was sentenced to death for the ...

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James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

VATICAN CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - Pope Leo condemned capital punishment for a second day running on Friday, calling for its abolition in the United States just as President Donald Trump's ...

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice said on Friday in a ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.