The trial for the suspect in a 2019 murder at a local gas station continued into its fourth day. Jurors heard from ...

Both were arrested on Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children, police said.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman.

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in 2004 has filed a stay of execution.

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...

Over to my right, I saw the skinny, barred windows of South Carolina’s death row. There were 28 inmates there earlier Friday, and now there are 27. That’s down from 31 last August. After a 13-year ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill to lessen the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be deemed ...

Davis is one of 13 Caddo Parish inmates sitting on death row. There are 58 total. Gov. Jeff Landry announced last month the protocols for the state’s new method of execution, nitrogen gas ...