Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

THE world has seen its deadliest year for executions in a decade, with Iran and China crowned the worst globally. Various ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...