The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Cabinet, led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, was expanded on Thursday (May 21, 2026), with the induction of 23 new members, including two Congress MLAs. The ...

In January, 1923, Lee Strasberg went to Al Jolson’s 59th Street Theatre to see “Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich,” a nineteenth-century Russian play about sixteenth-century Russian politics, performed, in ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

The execution of Tony Carruthers was called off May 21 after executioners failed to set an IV to administer the lethal injection. He had been scheduled to be executed in Riverbend Maximum Security ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Texas to carry out its 600th execution on Thursday, May 14. Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday ...

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Tony Carruthers’s lawyers say no evidence ties him to 1994 crimes he was convicted of and he is mentally incompetent Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tennessee governor Bill Lee has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers has been called off, and he will remain on death row for another year. In a statement given to News 2, TDOC said medical personnel ...

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state this year. Richard ...