by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police force ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon had his initial final meal request of three KFC buckets denied but still feasted ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States ... away from the death penalty.” South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death ...

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

In an hour-long interview with USA TODAY at the state’s Death Row ... by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police ...