1 day ago · The meaning of EXECUTION is the act or process of executing : performance. How to use execution in a sentence.

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

Execution of Louis XVI Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1][2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed …

Oct 13, 2025 · Four men are set for execution this week. It's the busiest death penalty month since 2011. Arizona, Missouri, Mississippi and Florida all have executions this week. Victims of the inmates …

May 14, 2026 · Busby's execution was the 600th in Texas since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982, after the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976.

1 day ago · Nitrogen gas execution could cause cruel amount of pain, court rules The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the amount of time it takes an inmate to die with the nitrogen gas method is ...

EXECUTION definition: 1. the legal punishment of killing someone: 2. the act of doing or performing something…. Learn more.

May 22, 2026 · 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 …

A Missouri man has been executed for the 1998 fatal stabbing of a woman despite calls by her family and the prosecutor’s office that put him on death row to let him serve out the rest of his life in prison.

20 hours ago · Jeffery Lee faces execution Thursday because a judge overturned a jury’s vote for a life sentence under a since-abolished procedure called judicial override.