WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One 26-year-old man is set to suffer a gruesome, minutes-long death after only being allowed ten ...

Rold describes it as a “gruesome” murder, and she doesn’t soften the details. She says Pike, along with others, tortured and ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim’s blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the ...

Photo of William M. Tucker. Senate and House Republicans unveiled legislation that their leaders previously signaled would surface when the General Assembly reconvened on Monday after nearly two ...