Executing the elderly: Is it justice served or beneath our dignity?

Eighty-year-old Dominick Occhicone is set to be executed in Florida on July 28. He's among a growing number of sickly and ...
Bucks Free Press

Thames Valley Police: Five arrested and warrants executed

Police have made five arrests and executed a series of coordinated warrants across High Wycombe, Chesham and Princes Risborough.

Executed football journalist 'may have been burned alive' as mafia probe continues

The charred remains of Luigi 'Luca' Esposito, a well-known sports journalist from the Salerno region of Italy, were found ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

What happens in the final weeks before an execution? These reporters were inside the room.

"The Last 12 Weeks," a new podcast from The Marshall Project, The New York Times, and Serial Productions, offers a rare look inside capital defense work.
National Catholic Reporter

He converted to Catholicism while on death row. It began with one question about God.

NCR begins a three-part series about Briley Piper, the only prisoner on South Dakota's death row, and the Catholic conversion ...

Mafia investigator probes execution of football journalist shot dead and set on fire

The burnt remains of football journalist Luigi 'Luca' Esposito were discovered in a remote field in Salerno, Italy, with the ...
USA Today

Nitrogen gas execution could cause cruel amount of pain, court rules

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...