A critical vulnerability in the popular Node.js sandboxing library vm2 allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary code on the host system. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-26956 and ...

A South Carolina inmate convicted of killing a state trooper more than 25 years ago cannot be executed due to a mental illness that has him believing he is immortal, a judge ruled. John Richard Wood, ...

Yaghoub Karimpour, 43, and Nasser Bakerzadeh, 26, were hanged on Saturday, and Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, 28, was executed on Sunday in Orumiyeh Central Prison. The Islamic regime tortured and mistreated ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

Raymond Eugene Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and arson in the 2007 deaths of Brooke Whitaker and her seven-month-old daughter, Kya Whitaker in Tulsa Oklahoma Department of Corrections; ...

The new wife of a double murderer screamed “I love you” and flailed against the window as her husband was executed in front of her in Texas. British law graduate Tiana Krasniqi had married death row ...

A Texas man who maintained his innocence in a fatal robbery that killed two men nearly two decades ago was executed this week. James Broadnax, 37, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in ...

Oklahoma executed a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her baby almost two decades ago. Raymond Johnson, 52, was ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Texas to carry out its 600th execution on Thursday, May 14. Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

STARKE — A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother’s 13-year-old stepdaughter to death nearly 50 years ago in Winter Garden was executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, ...

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Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...