• American playwrights, recognizing that identity is more complicated and slippery than ideology, have been shedding fresh light on what it means to be an American. • Writers such as Young Jean Lee, ...

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially do so, starting July 1. Four other states – South Carolina, Utah, ...

A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace. Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an ...

The pastor of the church said the skit was about "killing the devil," and the video was spreading without proper context. In late June 2026, people shared a video appearing to show children at a ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate set to be executed this week says he knows he committed a "horrible crime" when he killed his ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter, but that he doesn't deserve to die.

In November 2022, Taylor Parker was sentenced to death for murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock and kidnapping her unborn child. More than three years later, has a date been set for her execution? Parker, ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched The tangled path of US capital punishment takes a new ...

Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, is scheduled to be executed for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. If the execution proceeds, Spencer will become the oldest person executed in Florida in modern ...