South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...