South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

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COLUMBIA — Attorneys for death row inmates are asking the state Supreme Court to wait until after New Year’s Day to issue any ...

Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put to death on Nov. 2, 1984. Barfield ...

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The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty until the punishment was abolished in the 1960s.

After Trump won a second term on Wednesday, the Rev. Sharon Risher sent Biden a letter urging him to take action, including by commuting the sentences of all inmates on federal death row ...

After using “fabricated” evidence in a murder trial that put Iwao Hakamada on death row for decades, prosecutors have finally accepted the innocence of the former convict. The Supreme Public ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life.

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