A judge has cleared the way for South Carolina to pursue the death penalty against Brandon Council.

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...

A 74-year-old man, who became the oldest individual to be executed in Florida since records were first kept in 1924, offered ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed ...

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Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

DeWine's call to end Ohio's death penalty highlights a growing divide as states abolish, pause or continue executions.

As Indiana lawmakers prepare to revive debates over capital punishment methods, corrections officials have confirmed that the ...