I find it fascinating to learn about how life was 100 years ago, how the different political systems were, and just how ...

Throughout time, certain figures have been deliberately cut out of the historical record - not by accident, but by design. More often than not, powerful forces decide that certain truths are too ...

Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

Melvin Trotter, on Florida's death row for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, was executed by lethal injection Feb. 24, at Florida State Prison ...

Melvin Trotter is scheduled for execution for the 1986 murder of a 70-year-old shop owner in Palmetto. Trotter's attorneys have filed multiple appeals, including one currently before the U.S. Supreme ...

Florida has executed an inmate 35 years after he shot a police officer more than a dozen times during a traffic stop. Billy Leon Kearse was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, March 3, for the ...

Billy Leon Kearse, convicted in October 1991 in the Jan. 18, 1991, murder of Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish, and sentenced to death in March 1997, was executed the evening of March 3 after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People gather outside the Alabama Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 16, 2026, to urge Gov. Kay Ivey to grant ...

A Florida man who prosecutors say wrestled a police officer’s service weapon away during a 1991 traffic stop and fatally shot him was executed Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his ...

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Circuit Court judge has ordered that Gary Wayne Sutton, the man who was convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties, be evaluated by state ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for former police officer James Duckett, convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Duckett's execution is the fifth scheduled in ...