Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-four people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 ...

Join LizzyCapri and friends as they taste the strangest and most bizarre final meals requested by death row inmates. From ...

This article has been updated with the execution. COLUMBIA — A Sumter County man who killed three during a crime spree 21 ...

Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed for killing a man in his home and writing "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's ...

The Justice Department has so far transferred 10 of 37 former death row inmates to the nation's 'supermax' prison, and it ...

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on ...

Barbed wired fencing guides a path to a Kirkland Correctional Institution dorm in Columbia, SC. Gavin McIntyre [email protected] The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of ...

Richard Djerf was executed by lethal injection for the 1993 murders of four members of the Luna family. In his final days, Djerf expressed remorse and stated that the focus should be on his victims, ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — An inmate convicted of killing a Somerset County corrections officer, who now sits on death row, is continuing to search for a new trial and returned to the courtroom ...