North Carolina approached mid-February as a team in turmoil, with its NCAA Tournament hopes fading by the game; with a talented but flawed roster often finding ways to lose, and never finding the ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row ...

Convicted child-killer Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died in custody Saturday night after spending 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, attorney Shawn Nolan said in an ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court decided In August that when the state has the necessary drugs, death row inmates could choose the manner of execution between lethal injection or firing squad ...

The state now allows death row inmates to choose between lethal injection and firing squad, with the electric chair as the default. Sigmon's execution is scheduled for March 7 at the Broad River ...