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

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

Previously, the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Stanko’s request for more details on the firing squad, saying that Stanko’s lawyers failed to prove that the previous execution was botched.