Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant against Stephen Stanko for the Horry County shooting death of a friend.

Journalist Jeffrey Collins has watched almost a dozen people executed in the US using three different methods and described ...

A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13.

A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be ...

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme ...

Earlier this year, Alabama executed murderer Brad Sigmon via firing squad, a 400-year old technique in which corrections officers shoot one bullet into an inmate's chest. It was America's first ...

which was introduced several days before South Carolina used a firing squad to execute Brad Sigmon, a 67-year-old death row inmate convicted of murdering an ex-girlfriend’s parents. Sigmon’s execution ...