Michael Hutto, 56, entered the guilty plea in Florida on Thursday, accepting responsibility for the killing of 18-year-old Lora Grace Duncan at the Hilton Singer Island oceanfront resort in ...

Billy Ray Irick, the death row inmate executed by the state last week, should not receive an autopsy because it would violate his religious beliefs, a Nashville judge ordered. Irick sued to block ...

Hale was one of seven reporters selected by a grim lottery to witness Billy Ray Irick’s execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. He’d written stories about Irick ...