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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

Again, the death penalty was different for nobility ... of its gallows and the building of the nation’s first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890, and even ...

But when it comes to the death penalty, secrecy is an absolute essential ... lethal injection, the electric chair or the firing squad. In each case, the identity of the executioner is kept ...

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