Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

Two men on Mississippi's death row were told the state Supreme Court would not rehear arguments in their cases.

Caleb Corrothers, aka Caleb Carrothers, the Oxford man convicted of two counts of capital murder in 2011 for the shooting ...

Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas or firing squads?

A death row prisoner died yesterday night (21 March) while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH). According to prison authorities, the prisoner Yakub Ali Babul, 45, had ...

Our court system relies on a jury of our peers to enforce criminal law, but new research confirms a "good jury" consists primarily of white men.

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

The State of Oklahoma is set to carry out its first execution of 2025, with death row prisoner Wendell Grissom scheduled to ...

Oklahoma plans to execute a murderer on Thursday, Wendell Grissom, who shot two women near Watonga 20 years ago.

The execution of Edward Thomas James, who raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and killed her grandmother in 1993, has been delayed till 8 p.m.

53-year-old convicted killer Aaron Brian Gunches was executed via lethal injection earlier this week, and his final meal has ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...