WASHINGTON, DC – The Death Penalty Information Center has reported the use of the death penalty in the United States remained ...

Israel’s recent deal with Hamas—releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted murderers—has sparked controversy and renewed calls for capital punishment for terrorists amid fears of ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

The Utah Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment” with language that mirrors the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. However, Article I, Section 9 of the Utah Constitution extends ...

Andrew and her lawyers have argued since 2007 that her case is an example of that exact phenomenon—and on January 21, the Supreme Court agreed, reversing a lower court’s ruling against Andrew, whose ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

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.

South Carolina has executed Marion Bowman Jr., the third inmate to die at the hands of the state since executions resumed in ...