Convicted killer Kenneth Lee Boyd was executed early today, becoming the 1000th prisoner put to death since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

A North Carolina man was executed early today for the 1990 stabbing death of his wife despite the pleas of his four children, who sought clemency for their father.

A man who offered a lift in his car to a man he had been drinking with, and then shot him and dumped his body in a river was executed by injection today.