In U.S. v Estate of Whittemore (U.S. District for Massachusetts, Dec. 16, 2025), the decedent’s income tax liabilities and wife survived him. John Whittemore and his wife, Carlene, had filed joint ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers are considering new legislation to close a legal loophole that has allowed strangers to take control of estates, sell homes and pocket millions of dollars ...

Beijing has stepped up cooperation with south-east Asian nations to crack down on the multibillion-dollar industry China on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key ...

This photo provided by the Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library shows Tommy Lee Walker, a Black man from Texas, who was executed by electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and ...

Essam al-Shazly is the latest foreign national to die in a ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman In his four years on death row, Essam al-Shazly’s mother was ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend ...

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Eleven members of a family-operated syndicate in northern Myanmar have been executed following the approval of their death sentences by China's top court. The announcement was made on Thursday through ...

Today marks 37 years since infamous serial killer Ted Bundy met his end in the electric chair, though he's far from the only killer to have suffered such a fate. Killed before nature would have taken ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to ...