PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — A Maricopa County jury has handed down a death sentence in the high-profile case of Cleophus Emmanuel Cooksey Jr., who was convicted in September of killing eight people across ...
An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.
Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...