Just days after an Arkansas Senate committee moved to abandon the death penalty, a Republican lawmaker has called for a return of firing squads as an execution method. Acting between…
The prosecution has rested its case. Now, it’s the defense’s last turn to explain Eddie Ray Routh’s case. No one disputes that Routh shot and killed Chris Kyle, subject of…
A chilling video shown in court showed police placing Routh into a squad car moments after authorities chased him down a Texas highway. Earlier that day in February 2013, authorities…
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, members of the so-called “Bali Nine,” were sentenced to death in 2006 and after several failed legal appeals and two denials of clemency, their execution…
Facing dwindling supplies of lethal injection chemicals and increased legal scrutiny of the practice, some states are considering a return to antiquated execution methods like firing squads and gas chambers…
Twitter just can’t seem to catch a break. Critics have panned the company’s slowing user growth. It has churned through the hiring and firing of top managers. Recently, investors have…
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group supported by the Syrian regime, claimed responsibility for firing an anti-tank missile on an Israeli military vehicle in Har Dov, at the intersection of the…
“But I also said, ‘Myuran, what are you doing? Are you just going to sit around and wait for this? You’ve got nothing else to do, go back to work…
The shooting happened right after two newly-sworn in officers left the chambers. As a city council member began a discussion of a resolution, a man with a handgun began firing,…