Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to expand federal execution methods to include firing squads, electrocution, and lethal gas, while streamlining the appeals process for death row inmates.

James Hitchcock is scheduled to be executed for the 1976 rape and murder of his 13-year-old step-niece. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Hitchcock's final appeal for a stay of execution. Hitchcock will ...

PHOENIX - In Arizona's death chamber in the minutes just before an execution, inmates lay strapped to a table with a white sheet pulled up to their necks. Witnesses who are there partially to ensure ...