Alibaba’s latest AI model, Qwen 3.7 Max, has emerged as a standout performer in the competitive AI landscape, surpassing benchmarks set by models like Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1. With a remarkable score ...

After languishing on death row in Texas for nearly two decades, James G. Broadnax was executed on April 30, 2026. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted him of robbery and double murder.

Florida executed James Hitchcock, 70, by lethal injection on Thursday, April 30, for the 1976 rape and strangulation murder of his 13-year-old step-niece Cynthia "Cindy" Driggers. It was Florida's ...

TEXAS, USA — THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Absent last-minute intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the murder of two music ...

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An upcoming execution in Texas has gained the attention of prominent rappers like Travis Scott and T.I. for the questions it raises about the place rap lyrics have in the courtroom and how justice is ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...

VATICAN CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - Pope Leo condemned capital punishment for a second day running on Friday, calling for its abolition in the United States just as President Donald Trump's ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal appeals. By Devlin Barrett and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Devlin Barrett ...

A Florida man is scheduled for execution next month after his conviction in the killing of his cousin’s girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter under a death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...