South Carolina is scheduled to put to death next month the state's fifth death row inmate since a 13-year pause was lifted on ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor’s office that originally put him ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

Attorneys for inmate Mikal Mahdi are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his upcoming execution to consider the influence ...

The execution of an Upstate man convicted of killing two law enforcement officers has been paused. Steven Bixby was sentenced ...

The execution of an Upstate man convicted of killing two law enforcement officers has been paused. Steven Bixby was sentenced ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the fifth state to approve the method.

A four-time convicted killer was allowed to have private family visits in prison. Now, there is a murder investigation underway after one of his visitors died.

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want the state Supreme Court to stop his execution, ...