NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its work for the session, but this week marks the anniversaries of two landmark decisions on ...

Twenty-five executions were also carried out last year and in 2018. Those are the highest totals since there were 28 in 2015. Here's a look at recent executions and those scheduled for the rest ...

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

Horry County’s chief prosecutor was among a handful of people in attendance for the June 13 execution of double murderer ...

A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...

LAMAR, S.C. -- A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while ...

Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a ...

Exclusive: Ex-deputy sheriff Evan Robert Hawthorne’s lawyers claim self defense after former Rock Hill cop Larry Vaughan was ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.