. . . Death row, of course, is home to society's most hardened killers. Dennis Stockton was perhaps the worst, said Harold Catron, now 71, who in 1984 was head of Mecklenburg's security operations.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) said in a Facebook post on June 4: "SBI agents, along with officers from 12 agencies, are working around the clock to locate and bring all ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, has been granted a stay of execution pending the resolution of his lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

A 20-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on an attempted murder charge in connection with a weekend shooting around a house party in North Carolina that led to the death of one person and injuries fo… ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...