Florida has carried out 19 executions in 2025, surpassing Texas, Alabama and South Carolina combined, and more than doubling ...

Protesters outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted Clifford ...

The number of death row inmates executed across the U.S. spiked dramatically this year to a level not seen in more than a decade. That's alarming opponents of the death penalty who say public opinion ...

In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Few death row ...

Nancy Mace introduced a bill to federalize the death penalty for child rape. It would face swift legal challenges.

Executions rose dramatically in the U.S. this year, and the Gulf South played a key role, a new report shows. While Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama all put people to death, Alabama was in a group ...