Patrick Roy was fired as coach of the New York Islanders on Sunday, another late-season change in the NHL that comes with a team in the middle of a spring tailspin that has put their playoff chances ...

Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, has lost her appeal after two decades of contesting her conviction for conspiring to murder her estranged husband in 2001. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER ...

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James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

GATESVILLE, Texas — Melissa Lucio remains on death row in Cameron County nearly four years after her scheduled execution was halted and nearly two years after the state district judge who sentenced ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied two appeals from Dallas County death row inmate James Broadnax three days ahead of his scheduled execution. Broadnax, 37, made two appeals to the Supreme Court ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, convicted of first-degree murder for setting his elderly neighbor on fire after she allegedly caught him burglarizing her home, maintained his innocence right before being ...

James Franklin Rose has been waiting a lifetime to be put to death. Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the warrant authorizing the May 21 execution of Richard Knight, 47, who was convicted of ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

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Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...