In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Arguments were heard in the case of Ralph Leroy Menzies, who has been on death row for 37 years, on whether he can be ...

An astounding 175 of those inmates were sentenced from Los Angeles County courts, giving L.A. the dubious distinction of holding more men (and three women) on death row than any state except Florida.

The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped ...

Gerald Powers, a Tennessee man who a judge sentenced to death 26 years ago, died Saturday on death row. He was 70 ... Tennessee is one of only a few states that allow a person to opt for the ...

Prosecutors won’t be allowed to use accused killer Bryan Kohberger’s autism to argue to a jury that he deserves the death penalty in the ... “The state has no plan to use his autism as ...

(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) A state judge sought more time to decide if she will allow the Dallas County ... special prosecutor could seek the death penalty. District Attorney John ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency ... Mahdi would be the second in the state to ever die by ...

As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners, a bill in the legislature ... the state also needs to address “abuses in the system” that allow post-conviction relief cases to remain ...

Should the bill become law, New York would become the 11th jurisdiction in the United States to permit physician-assisted ...

During his 23 years in state custody ... when a jury cannot agree on death, and makes no report on whether it found aggravating circumstances that allow a death penalty, it cannot be imposed.

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