When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend's parents, ...

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.

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed at Oklahoma State Penitentiary for a 2005 home invasion and murder. He killed Amber Dawn ...

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 ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out ...

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.