A jury has convicted Eric Wildman of murdering his neighbour — that prosecutors said he’d caught stealing from him on his rural Manitoba property — ending a legal odyssey that included a mistrial.

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm as the couple’s toddler looked on was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...