The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

AP journalist Reid G. Miller speaks on a phone while sitting barefoot in the mud in a U.N. compound in November 1994, in ...

A Florida dad celebrating his birthday was gunned down in front of his 1-year-old son during an argument with a stranger inside a Walgreens. Anthony Souvenir, 27, was inside the Miramar pharmacy with ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday in ...

Stephan Sterns, the man facing a first-degree murder charge and the death penalty, if convicted, in the disappearance and death of 13-year-old Madeline Soto has filed nearly 50 motions in recent days ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Shyheem Bowens, 18, of Durham, is charged with murder in the death of a 17-year-old male juvenile that occurred on South ...

The reputed leader of a notorious, violent drug gang that terrorized Liberty City in the 1990s, already taken off death row after a judge found prosecutors committed misconduct, saw his convictions ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the year in the nation.