Oracle today announced the availability of Java 26, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. Java 26 (Oracle JDK 26) delivers thousands of ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

WASHINGTON − Justice Sonia Sotomayor called Florida’s record on lethal injections “deeply troubling,” even as she joined the Supreme Court’s Feb. 24 decision clearing the way for the state’s latest ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scheduled the state's second execution of 2026 for February 24. Melvin Trotter was convicted of a 1986 murder and sentenced to death in 1987, then resentenced to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of prisoners, from the time the condemned person enters the execution chamber ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled four executions in 2026. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were ...

The family of detained Iranian protester Erfan Soltani have said his execution was postponed, as US President Donald Trump said he had received assurances that the “killing has stopped.” “We were told ...