James L. Brooks returns to feature filmmaking with Ella McCay, a political comedy-drama that feels both comfortingly old ...

Louisiana is shrinking. Since the early 1930s, the state has lost about 2,000 square miles of land for a variety of reasons ...

Directed by Michael Showalter and co-written by Showalter and Chandler Baker, Oh. What. Fun. sets out to be a warm, ...

STARKE — A man convicted of raping and fatal beating his manager at a Florida convenience store in 1988 was put to death Thursday evening in the state’s 17th execution this year. Richard Barry ...

A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year.Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices. By ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Oct. 23 condemned what they called the “intense psychological torment” a death row inmate will face when he becomes the eighth man executed ...

FLORENCE, AZ — Arizona has executed Richard Kenneth Djerf for the 1993 murders of four people at a Phoenix home. Djerf was executed at 10:40 a.m. Friday by lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison ...

PARCHMAN, Mississippi — Mississippi executed Charles Ray Crawford on Wednesday evening, ending a three-decade legal saga tied to one of the state’s most notorious crimes, the Associated Press reported ...

Richard Djerf is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 17 for the 1993 murders of four members of the Luna family. Djerf has stated he is remorseful for his crimes and will not seek to have his life spared ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student has been executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Charles Crawford, 59, had ...

A Florida killer known as the “Deacon of Death” was executed on Tuesday for the murders of two women whose bodies were found dumped in a pond in 1996, continuing a record 14 executions carried out by ...