After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the ...

The Florida Supreme Court has stayed the execution of former police officer James Duckett. Duckett was sentenced to death in 1988 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee. Duckett's ...

A jury convicted Leroy McGill of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder along with arson and endangerment charges before sentencing him to death. The execution warrant has McGill ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack, marking what would be the state’s first use of the ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday paused next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer, who was convicted in 1988 of raping, choking and drowning an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Florida inmates, three of which spent over 30 years on death row, according to the Florida Department of Corrections, have ...

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Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late Wednesday, seeking to halt his execution scheduled for March 31. The 11th-hour ...