k0710 The state of Texas put George Rivas to death on a night that made history, a cold February evening when the clock on a mastermind’s life finally ran out. The leader of the Texas 7, the convict who engineered one of the most brazen prison escapes in American history, was executed by lethal injection at … Read more
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Matthew Lee Johnson was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m. Central Daylight Time on May 20, 2025, exactly 13 years after he doused a 76-year-old grandmother in lighter fluid and set her ablaze during a brazen convenience store robbery. The execution by lethal injection at the Huntsville State Penitentiary brought to a close … Read more
David Russell Hosier, a 69-year-old former firefighter and Navy veteran, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. on June 11, 2024, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, ending a 15-year legal battle that began with the brutal double murder of a Jefferson City couple. His final hours unfolded with grim … Read more
The state of South Carolina carried out an execution Thursday evening that it had not performed in nearly 15 years, using a method never before employed in the state’s modern history. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, becoming the first inmate in the United States … Read more
The stillness of South Carolina’s death row shattered the morning before the execution, but the silence from Cell One was deeper than the rest. When the guards reached Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins’ cell, they hesitated. He wasn’t moving. Then they saw the blood. The man once branded the meanest in America lay beneath a thin … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Gary Gilmore sat wide awake in his maximum-security cell, staring at the ceiling while the prison hummed around him. The calendar read January 16, 1977, and fewer than 24 hours remained before the moment he had spent months demanding with increasing fury: the moment the state would finally take his … Read more
The Idaho courtroom that witnessed Bryan Kohberger’s 𝓈𝒽𝓸𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 guilty plea just months ago is now the epicenter of a new legal firestorm, as prosecutors have unsealed a chilling evidentiary filing that lays bare the accused killer’s meticulous months-long preparation for the murders of four University of Idaho students. The newly unsealed document, released by Judge … Read more
The state of Texas is pushing forward with the execution of Darlie Routier, the woman who has spent nearly three decades on death row for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon, even as a mountain of unresolved evidence continues to raise questions about whether the state is about to put an innocent mother to … Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. – It’s been 30 years since the brutal murder of an 11-year-old babysitter made headlines out of Waukegan. In a FOX 32 Special Report, we take another look at the unsolved case of Holly Staker. “It’s the case that for a good reason, community members are never going to let die,” said Waukegan … Read more
Christa Gail Pike, the woman who at 18 years old carved a pentagram into a classmate’s chest and bludgeoned her with a chunk of asphalt in a brutal 1995 murder, now has a concrete date with the executioner. The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled her death for September 30th, 2026, setting the stage for a … Read more