Five U.S. states—including South Carolina—allow executions by firing squad ... Sigmon called on his fellow Christians to help ...

South Carolina is one of 27 U.S. states that have the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that provides data and analysis on issues concerning capital ...

Some executions are believed to be more painful than others and experts have weighed in on what would be one of the most ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

and that the majority of death penalty states did not allow the punishment for that crime. Justices said the standard for what constituted “excessive” punishment should be evolving based on a ...

The first of those executions was the notorious Jack McCall. History knows Jack as the guy who shot Wild Bill Hickok in ...