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A 74-year-old man convicted of killing his wife has become the oldest person to be executed in modern Florida times.

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana − Roy Lee Ward, the man who raped and murdered 15-year-old Stacy Payne inside her Spencer County home in 2001, was executed just after midnight Friday, Oct. 10. Ward, 53, died ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General’s office asked ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A Memphis man was not executed on Thursday morning after staff had to call off the procedure. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection at Riverbend ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Austin Sarat, Amherst College (THE CONVERSATION) Tennessee set out to execute Tony ...