Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state ...

A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the ...

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate said he will decide Monday whether to delay Richard Jordan’s execution. The 79- year-old ...

Richard Jordan, who is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi on June 25 argues against lethal-injection drug combination in federal court.

Mississippi Department of Corrections protocol requires execution staff to ensure that inmates are completely unconscious ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman outside a Florida bar has been scheduled for execution on July 15.

Indiana's lethal injections force doctors to break their "do no harm" oath while costing $450,000 per execution.