HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Florida Death Row Inmate Seeks Stay Of Execution For DNA Search
Attorneys for Daniel Conahan Jr., 72, are asking the Supreme Court to stay the execution of their client, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Egyptian TV presenter sentenced to death over drug trafficking
Egyptian TV host Sarah Khalifa has been sentenced to death by hanging along with 11 others after a Cairo court convicted them of running a drug trafficking network, state media reported.
AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - America is seeing an uptick in executions
Data: Death Penalty Information Center ; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Florida executed its 14th prisoner for the year on Tuesday, adding to a post-COVID surge in capital punishment that drove more executions last year than any since 2009. The big picture: Even as fewer courts sentence defendants to death and more than half of the states have banned or at least temporarily halted the practice, the Trump administration has overtly cheered on the death penalty. - "The increased number of executions last year reflected the enthusiasm and the urging of this administration to increase use of the death penalty, and the acquiescence of some state officials to that political pressure," Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director…
NEWSNATIONNOW (Diana Falzone) - Iranian mother to be executed after arrest at January protests
The Islamic court claimed Abolhasani set fire to a supermarket during the protests. She was arrested Jan. 8.
AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Florida prepares to execute 13th prisoner of 2026 as state leads nation in death sentences carried out
William Frances Silvia, convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife at a family cookout in 2006, faces lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, the state's 13th execution this year and part of a pace that accounts for more than half of all U.S. executions in 2026. Silvia, 61, is scheduled to die at […] The post Florida prepares to execute 13th prisoner of 2026 as state leads nation in death sentences carried out appeared first on American Almanac .
William Frances Silvia, convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife at a family cookout in 2006, faces lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, the state's 13th execution this year and part of a pace that accounts for more than half of all U.S. executions in 2026. Silvia, 61, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. local time at the prison near Starke, Florida. He was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for an attack that killed Patricia Silvia and wounded her mother, Betty Woodard. Court records show Silvia purchased a shotgun, drove to Woodard's Orlando-area home where his wife had been living since their separation two months earlier, and opened fire on both women after a failed attempt to…Open
THEFEDERALIST (Joy Pullmann) - ‘Postpartum Depression’ Or Not, Lindsay Clancy Should Be Executed For Murder
If you can't understand that it's evil to kill children, you are a mortal danger to the innocent and therefore not fit to live in a just society.
ABCNEWS - Florida set to carry out 13th execution this year in nation's busiest death chamber
A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law is set to be executed
NEWSNATIONNOW - Iranian regime threatens citizens with death penalty to stay silent about executions
Citizens who speak out can be arrested for "Corruption on Earth," a charge that carries the death penalty.
ABCNEWS - Iran executes protesters in public as regime expands postwar repression: Reports
Public executions returned to the streets of Iran last week as the regime clamps down on public dissent after months of war with the U.S. and mass protests in January.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - 6 Iranian women to be executed and 2 more await regime’s decision | NewsNation
Iran continues its brutal crackdown by executing more people, including sentencing six women to death. NewsNation’s Diana Falzone has the latest.