This March 2019 photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's electric chair in Columbia, ...

Reelectionist Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said he would refile a bill that he has long been pushing, which seeks to ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

For Marshall, restraint is weakness. His rage over Ivey’s decision reveals a man who sees capital punishment not as a last ...

A federal public defender is arguing that prosecutors have long forfeited the right to pursue capital punishment in the murder case against Richardson Dangleben Jr., but the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

The death penalty has long been a controversial and divisive issue, with passionate advocates on both sides of the debate.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...