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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 11, 2026.
David Duncan, who reviewed three botched Arizona executions, tells NPR that unlabeled drugs in a jar and cash payments to staff were warning signs, and that Tennessee's protocol copies Arizona's.
WatchThe Army has set Dec. 3 at Fort Hood for the execution of Hasan, who killed 13 people in 2009. It would be the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years.
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama ruled the government failed to prove Mustafa al Hawsawi's 2007 statements to the FBI were voluntary. Three of the four men charged in the death-penalty case now have confessions excluded.
Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review and canceled every remaining execution this year. Pike remains on a ventilator, her lawyers say.
WatchPike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital and was rushed to a hospital. Gov. Bill Lee called for a third-party review and said no more executions will go ahead this year.
Pike, now 50, was 18 when she helped torture and kill a classmate in 1995. Gov. Bill Lee refused clemency and her lawyers are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court.
WatchFourth District Judge Tony Graf found enough evidence to establish probable cause that Robinson, 23, shot Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus last September. Robinson pleaded not guilty within minutes of the ruling.
WatchProsecutors began laying out DNA and rifle evidence against Tyler Robinson on Monday, with Kirk's widow and parents in the courtroom for the first time as a five-day preliminary hearing gets underway.
In a closely watched habeas decision, the justices faulted a federal appeals court for relying on after-the-fact DNA evidence, drawing a sharp dissent from Justices Thomas and Alito as the term enters its final, blockbuster weeks.
Iran alone executed at least 2,159 people in 2025 — more than double 2024 — with nearly half of all known killings worldwide carried out for nonviolent drug offenses.