A rare female execution by lethal injection is scheduled for later today in Texas for Kimberly McCarthy, who was convicted of brutally murdering her neighbor in 1997 and cutting off her finger.
Brazilian police have arrested four people in connection with a fire that broke out Saturday night at a club in Santa Maria, Brazil that left 231 people dead.
A Florida appeals court has thrown out two of the four convictions that Casey Anthony faced for lying to a detective during the investigation into her daughter's disappearance in 2008, according to reports.
Jason Smith, an exterminator by profession, admitted to strangling a pediatrician at her home in downtown Philadelphia after the two got into a verbal argument, CBS Philly reports.
