A trusted analyst has claimed that OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to create custom smartphone processors. These chips would be used in a rumored AI-focused smartphone. The chip specs ...

The state of Texas is set to move forward with the execution of James Garfield Broadnax on Thursday, nearly two decades after a double murder unfolded in North Texas. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

TEXAS, USA — THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Absent last-minute intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the murder of two music ...

Florida executed James Hitchcock, 70, by lethal injection on Thursday, April 30, for the 1976 rape and strangulation murder of his 13-year-old step-niece Cynthia "Cindy" Driggers. It was Florida's ...

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Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

Florida executed 19 inmates in 2025, more than double its previous record. The state has faced scrutiny over its accelerated pace of executions and its lethal injection protocols. Attorneys for ...

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who said prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence was ...

A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago was executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.

The gurney in Huntsville where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. James Broadnax is scheduled to be executed for shooting and killing two Christian music producers in Garland ...