“We have a great asset,” Gen. George C. Marshall once said of the U.S. Army. “Our countrymen, our fellow citizens, are not afraid of us. They don’t harbor any ideas that we intend to alter the ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

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A North Texas man was executed on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of 30-year-old ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was put to death Wednesday evening for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013, apologizing profusely to her older son who survived with multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exterior of the Huntsville Unit, where Texas executes death row inmates, on Oct. 17, 2024. (Mark Felix for the Texas Tribunne) ...

The State of Texas is set to execute a man by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2013 deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son. Cedric Ricks, 51, was sentenced to death after fatally ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his common-law wife and child during a stabbing attack is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, according to information from the Texas ...

A social media post by Gov. Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority to stop the execution of a man who was convicted ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WINK) – The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the path for the execution of Michael King, one of Southwest Florida’s most notorious killers, by rejecting his final legal appeal.