Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

“Nearly all critical scholars agree at least on those points about the historical Jesus,” Bart D. Ehrman wrote, even as the ...

History is full of shocking, gruesome, and downright terrifying ways to die. Join us as we count down some of the most brutal ...

Florida man is executed for the killing of a young mother who frantically called 911 while tied up in a car.

Historians have long been intrigued by a key Bible account about Jesus' death on the cross. Now, a team of medical experts ...

At some point in human history someone looked at a criminal and said, “Sure, we could just execute him… but what if we did it in the most unnecessarily dramatic way possible?” And that’s basically the ...

A Florida man on death row for the 1991 murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish was executed by lethal injection Tuesday, March 3, at Florida State Prison in Raiford, the state's third ...

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 ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 47 people were put to death in 11 states, the highest annual ...