The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she was sent to the gallows for murdering her "abusive" lover, their lawyers ...

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ST. LOUIS — Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for ...

A Florida man who killed a woman in a 1989 home invasion has been executed. The man’s death marks the 18th death sentence that was carried out in the state. Mark Geralds was 58 years old when he was ...

While it’s still frequently hard to escape the feeling that the world is designed around the whims of rich, careless, selfish, white men, this was even more emphatically the case in 1955. As ITV’s new ...

SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.” ...

This story was originally published by the Nashville Banner. Sign up for their newsletter at nashvillebanner.com/newsletters. Christa Pike, the only woman currently ...

Ellis was hanged in 1955 for shooting dead her lover as he came out of the Magdala pub in London - Copyright AFP BENJAMIN CREMEL Ellis was hanged in 1955 for shooting ...