Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of executions. Samuel Smithers was put to death by ...

Samuel Smithers, 72, was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford. File Photo by Paul Buck/EPA Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the ...

A Florida killer known as the “Deacon of Death” was executed on Tuesday for the murders of two women whose bodies were found dumped in a pond in 1996, continuing a record 14 executions carried out by ...

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man nicknamed the “Deacon of Death” was executed Tuesday evening, nearly 30 years after committing two murders in Plant City. Samuel Smithers, 72, was a church deacon when he ...

Lance Shockley, 48, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday evening in Missouri. Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Corrections/Website Oct. 14 (UPI) --Missouri on Tuesday executed ...

Christa Pike, convicted of a 1995 murder in Tennessee, has become the state’s only woman on death row. Nearly thirty years after the crime, the Tennessee Supreme Court has set her execution date for ...

The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem ...

The 1967 season saw a record number of hurricanes for a season whose first storm didn't develop until the end of August. The ...

Walters is golf’s version of Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen, still rocking out at age 76 and performing shows nationwide.