Christa Pike makes first public comments since failed execution: ‘There is pain in my mind and in my soul’
She is facing the death penalty for the 1995 murder of her classmate, despite surviving a botched execution last monthChrista Pike has marked a month ...
Medical experts shocked by Tennessee team’s ‘malpractice’ in Christa Pike’s failed execution
New details of IV team’s attempts to find a vein shared by Pike’s lawyer ‘shocked and disturbed’ practitionersMedical experts have expressed shock at ...
Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution
New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flowThe Tennessee execution team tasked with sett...
Florida kills 77-year-old man in state’s 18th execution of year
Vietnam veteran William Reaves executed by lethal injection despite letter from fellow veterans urging haltFlorida carried out its 18th execution of t...
Hegseth church allies backed plan for ‘public’ execution of Fort Hood shooter
Leader of CREC church – whose pastors have advocated death penalty – says he ‘prefers public executions to private’Donald Trump announced Thursday he ...
Trump cancels plan to livestream execution after global condemnation
Soldier who killed 13 people in 2009 will still be executed, but president said ‘people would rather not watch him die’Donald Trump has shelved a wide...
The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously announced. Donald Trump an...
For some Christians, Hegseth's plan for public execution fits a biblical mandate
Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politi...
Retired US generals call on Pentagon to cancel 'barbaric' execution livestream
Livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it," 72 former officers sai...
Florida carries out execution after botched Tennessee attempt
James Robertson was the state’s 17th execution this year, amid scrutiny over Tennessee’s failed lethal injection of Christa PikeUS plan to livestream ...
Archbishop of US military condemns Pentagon plans to livestream execution
Timothy Broglio says Catholics on army firing squad should ask to be excused since it clashes with church teachingsThe archbishop who oversees the spi...
Julie Inman Grant may be able to limit Australians seeing a livestreamed US execution – but it could start a diplomatic incident
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Australian Greens call for ‘barbaric’ US execution live stream to be blocked
Federal government urged to prevent Australians from viewing planned broadcast of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan’s execution The Australian gover...
Politics live: Greens call for US execution live stream to be blocked; Flydubai pilot’s Australia links ‘disturbing’
Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition says reports the FlyDubai pilot involved in a thwa...
Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?
Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlightIt t...
Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt
Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical careChrista Pike has been dischar...
Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream a...
Why a public execution will bring the US closer to Iranian values
It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by TehranPete Hegseth’s plans to stage a publi...
The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Ford Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the fir...
