Texas high school shooting leaves 18-year-old student dead, shot multiple times; suspect in custody

A 17-year-old student is in custody after shooting a fellow-student at a public high school in Texas on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Read More

Grand jury indicts man on murder charge in shooting death of Texas girl during ATM robbery

A Houston man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted for murder in her death. Read More

Family, activists call for convicted spree-killer’s execution to be halted

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The family of a man set to be executed next week for a 2002 killing spree joined anti ... to halt Smith’s execution. At a news conference on Friday, Smith’s family ... Read More

Man convicted of ex-girlfriend’s killing scheduled to be first Georgia inmate executed in years

(AP) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his ... pentobarbital was set to unfold after 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. Pye was scheduled to be the first person executed in Georgia ... Read More

Southwest Missouri man could soon be put to death for killing 9-year-old Rowan Ford

A man on death row for raping and killing a 9-year-old ... Supreme Court issues the execution warrant, according to Bailey, the execution date will be set between 90 and 120 days from that court ... Read More

Missouri man executed for killing his cousin, her husband in 2006

(AP) — A Missouri man was executed ... in the 2009 killing of a Jefferson City woman. Five people have been executed in five different states this year — Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma ... Read More

22 years on, US man executed for killing Andhra student

Pulluru, a Telugu student ... A 41-year-old man convicted of shooting and killing two people, including one from Andhra Pradesh, in US city of Oklahoma in 2002 has been executed. Read More

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Alabama man convicted of killing 5 people asks to be executed: ‘It’s the right thing to do’

The 35-year-old inmate on Alabama’s death row has spent almost six years fighting his sentence after being convicted of killing five people ... what they’ve seen was a man who literally ... Read More

Grand jury indicts man for murder in shooting death of Texas girl during ATM robbery

HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted for murder in her death. Tuesday’s indictment against Tony Earls comes ... Read More