LAMAR, S.C. -- A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its work for the session, but this week marks the anniversaries of two landmark decisions on ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

The shooter, Dylann Roof, then 22, sat in the Bible study group with his victims for about an hour in the basement of 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. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at ...

10 articles on factors SC death row inmates consider before execution choice. Stories by The State journalists, with AI summarization. This collection of stories examines how individuals, legal ...