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

Weeks before Kohberger’s trial was set to begin, he pleaded guilty to the stabbing murders of four University of Idaho ...

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

The federal case against a Stoughton cop accused of grooming, impregnating and then killing a Canton woman named Sandra ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its work for the session, but this week marks the anniversaries of two landmark decisions on ...

Anti-death penalty protesters await the planned execution of Stephen Stanko outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

A governor has not spared a death row inmate’s life in the previous 48 executions since South Carolina reinstated the death penalty about 50 years ago. What will happen to Stanko in the death chamber ...

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer is mounting a GOP primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham, arguing the incumbent ...

A governor has not spared a death row inmate’s life in the previous 48 executions since South Carolina reinstated the death penalty about 50 years ago. Stanko is the sixth inmate executed in South ...

Opinion Columns & Blogs 12 perspectives on South Carolina’s debate over death penalty execution method June 17, 2025 2:19 PM Stories by The State journalists, with AI summarization ...