As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, writes that there's another ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

The lawyer, Kimberly Stevens, represents people charged in federal capital cases, where they could face the death penalty, ...

Beaufort County police say the man opened fire on his ex-girlfriend’s car as she drove her 6-year-old child to school.

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Dawn Staley is the best women's basketball coach in college basketball - and perhaps the entire world. The former University ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

Gudinas was found guilty in 1995 of the rape and murder of Michelle McGrath. The court heard that the young woman's body, ...