A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his ...

Prosecutors said he laced drinks and supplements with deadly poison in a revenge plot against his billionaire boss. Reporter A former gaming executive who prosecutors say turned an office power ...

Chinese authorities have executed a man convicted of using poison to kill a billionaire gaming tycoon linked to the Netflix adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem" over a professional dispute, local ...

Arizona has executed a death row inmate for setting two people on fire more than 20 years ago, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever. The state executed Leroy McGill, 63, by lethal ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

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A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin's girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, becoming the seventh person executed by the state this year.

A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state this year. Richard ...

An Arizona man convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline on him and setting him on fire was executed Wednesday, marking the first of three executions scheduled this week in the U.S. The ...

Arizona executed 63-year-old Leroy Dean McGill by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on May 20 for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez. McGill was convicted in 2004 of first-degree murder, attempted ...