Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is set to be executed on Oct. 16, a judge announced during a hearing on Wednesday. Attorney General Ken Paxton requested the hearing to discuss a new execution date after numerous delays. Roberson, who was convicted of capital murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, was present … Read more
Starke, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. It would be the 26th execution in the U.S. this year. There were 25 nationwide in all of 2024. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled … Read more
Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform … Read more