At 80 years old, Florida death row inmate Dominick Occhicone has a heap of health issues: heart trouble, poor kidney function, an enlarged prostate, arthritis, and degenerative disc disease, according ...

For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US president, one who could fire the heads of ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent ...

Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protesters gather outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, June 8, 2026, to oppose an upcoming execution in Alabama.

The Supreme Court denied Alabama’s request to execute a man using nitrogen gas late Thursday after two lower court rulings blocked the method and found it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method. By Rick Rojas and Abbie VanSickle See more of our ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. US District Judge Emily C ...

McClain and his co-executor John Branca have clashed in court with Jackson's daughter Paris in recent months Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy John McClain, a music executive and Michael Jackson estate ...

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The old saying that “you can’t pick your family” may be true. But you can pick the executor of your estate and it doesn’t have to be a member of your family. Sometimes, in fact, it’s better when the ...

Iran is set to execute its first female protester tied to the January 2026 uprising in Tehran, according to multiple human rights organizations. Bita Hemmati was named in a collective death sentencing ...