McALESTER, Okla. — A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead ...

Oklahoma Execution Simpson This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Kendrick Simpson, 45, on Aug. 11, 2025, who is scheduled to be executed, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in ...

McALESTER, Okla. — A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead ...

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 ...

Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news ...

A rural Illinois bar owner was gunned down by a convicted murderer in an “execution-style” shooting shortly before opening her business for the day Monday. Courtney Drysdale, 30, was fatally shot by ...

This 2025 photo provided by Matt Schulz shows Charles "Sonny" Burton, who is facing execution in Alabama for a 1991 murder during a robbery, in which he was not the triggerman, at the Holman ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scheduled the state's second execution of 2026 for February 24. Melvin Trotter was convicted of a 1986 murder and sentenced to death in 1987, then resentenced to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Death row inmate William Lewis Reece has been returned to Oklahoma to face execution for the 1997 murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston. In July 1997, Johnston's body was found in a ...

Convicted murderer Frank Walls was executed at 6:11 p.m. ET on Dec. 18, 38 years after the brutal murders of Ann Peterson and Edward Alger in Okaloosa County. Walls was originally sent to Florida's ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Florida upped its execution record to 19 after enforcing the death penalty via lethal injection on Frank Athen Walls, who was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. EST on Thursday. Walls, 58, ...