A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority to stop the execution of a man who was convicted ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

The images of political prisoners, taken just before they were killed by Nazis in 1944, were put up for auction on eBay. The sale was pulled shortly thereafter. By Koba Ryckewaert and Niki Kitsantonis ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — 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 ...

Lt. Gen. Michael McCurry, commanding general of U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command, gives a speech during command's activation ceremony at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Feb. 12, 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Kendrick Simpson, 45, on Aug. 11, 2025, who is scheduled to be ...

Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

A new open-source and cross-platform tool called Tirith can detect homoglyph attacks over command-line environments by analyzing URLs in typed commands and stopping their execution. Available on ...

A set of attack vectors in GitHub Codespaces have been uncovered that enable remote code execution (RCE) by opening a malicious repository or pull request. The findings by Orca Security, show how ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

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 ...