The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Researchers say the historic 'Scottsboro Boys' served as a catalyst for the start of the Woke movement in the 1930s.

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

James Williams is an ER doctor, a hunter, a gunshot victim — and the go-to expert for death row prisoners seeking an ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

The House Judiciary and Rules Committee voted on party lines to send to the House floor HB 37, which would place the firing ...