Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. While Gov. Greg Abbott and lackeys such as Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath work themselves into a lather over remarks Charlie Kirk’s ...

Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma ...

In September 2025, Snopes readers wrote in asking whether the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had once said children should watch public executions. Kirk died on Sept. 10, 2025, after he was ...

Elizabeth Bruenig on witnessing U.S. executions and wrestling with mercy and justice Pulitzer finalist Elizabeth Bruenig recounts witnessing five executions over the past five years in her Atlantic ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a death-penalty renaissance, and now his ...

Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...