Eleven states executed 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009.
Tennessee executed Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.
Three Iranians were executed for allegedly spying for Israel, Iran's judiciary said, bringing the total put to death on similar charges during the conflict to six.
The South Carolina Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for the execution.
