South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the defendant in the case.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...

Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...

Two death row inmates at Karachi Central Jail were pardoned by the relatives of the deceased just 24 hours before their execution, ARY News reported on Wednesday. According to details, both prisoners, ...

A federal judge is hearing competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Following Maryam Rajavi’s call to end executions in Iran and her firm commitment to the abolition […] ...

Even before the death of Brooks, violence behind prison walls was a growing concern. The DOCCS reported 1,043 assaults on prison staff in 2019. By the end of 2024, that number has more than ...

As of January 2025, a slim majority of U.S. states, as well as the United States government and military, have the death penalty. This Five-for-Five takes a look at the intersection of gender-based ...

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.

The son of a Greece man who died after a brutal beating at a Central New York correctional facility sued the prison staffers in federal court this week. The lawsuit, filed over the death of 43 ...

alleges that defendants at the prison used excessive force and were indifferent to Brooks’ serious medical need. It also claims gross negligence and wrongful death.New York state cannot be sued ...