Dominick Occhicone became the 12th inmate to die by lethal injection in the state this year. He’s also the oldest person put to death since the state resumed capital punishment in 1979. The ...

James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were executed on July 28. The double execution was the first in the modern era of the death penalty. James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone were executed on July 28.

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 ...

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 ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission are unconstitutional and overturned a 90-year-old decision that allowed Congress to ...

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.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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. U.S.

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 ...