A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

Amid controversy over South Carolina’s execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...

On Thursday, a federal judge denied Stanko’s attorneys’ appeal to delay his execution over concerns of the effectiveness of lethal injection used on previous inmates. Stanko is set to become the sixth ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution ...

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

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months — and Gov ...

The power to seek death is the greatest power we give prosecutors. But the process for selecting death penalty cases in ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions. South Carolina uses either lethal injection or the ...

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.