At 80 years old, Florida death row inmate Dominick Occhicone has a heap of health issues: heart trouble, poor kidney function, an enlarged prostate, arthritis, and degenerative disc disease, according ...

Florida is scheduled to execute two men, Dominick Occhicone and James Duckett, on the same day. This will mark the first time in 62 years that Florida has executed more than one person on the same day ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Friday asked permission to execute a man by lethal injection after court rulings blocked the use of nitrogen gas and cast doubt on the future of the state’s gas ...

Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protesters gather outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, June 8, 2026, to oppose an upcoming execution in Alabama.

The Supreme Court denied Alabama’s request to execute a man using nitrogen gas late Thursday after two lower court rulings blocked the method and found it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method. By Rick Rojas and Abbie VanSickle See more of our ...