Toymaker Roger Sweet died Tuesday. As one of Mattel's longtime designers, Sweet is credited with developing He-Man, which became an emblem of childhood entertainment in the 1980s.

The number of death row inmates from Brevard County has dropped from 12 to three over the last decade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has increased the pace of executions, with 19 inmates executed in 2025.

It’s been more than 15 years since Washington state executed a death row inmate. In 2014, then-Gov. Jay Inslee placed a moratorium on executions for the remainder of his term. This followed continuing ...

A Mississippi death row inmate convicted in a 2017 killing spree that left eight people dead is asking the state’s highest court to overturn his conviction and death sentence.In a petition filed ...

THE CITY COUNCIL MEETS AGAIN TOMORROW. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, A CONVICTED MASS MURDERER IS BACK IN ORANGE COUNTY COURT FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM AFTER HALF A CENTURY. A JUDGE CANCELED YESTERDAY’S HEARING ...

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Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Wednesday that his office plans to seek execution warrants for three longtime death row inmates. Prosecutors believe Zane Floyd, 50, Donald Sherman, ...

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 ...

When Demarius Cummings heard that his cousin, James Broadnax, was scheduled to be executed on April 30, 2026, he told lawyers his conscience couldn’t take it anymore. Both men were arrested for the ...

Ohio is one of America’s most important death penalty “swing states.” Although the ultimate punishment is legal there, no one has been executed in the state since 2018, when Robert Van Hook was put to ...