Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

This marked the first execution in Texas in 2025 and the second in the U.S. There are three other executions scheduled this ...

Bowman's execution would be South Carolina's third in four months as it works through a backlog of death row inmates whose appeals were exhausted during a lengthy delay in lethal injections.

Advocates against the death penalty will be hosting a vigil for Bowman at 5:30 p.m. His execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday night at a Columbia prison.

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states have ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided ... more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the ...