Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

A poll has found more than half of people want capital punishment to return - but there's a reason Britons would not be able ...

Demetrius T. Frazier, convicted of murdering a Detroit teen in 1992, was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama after an unusual ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information ... how he wants to die — with a lethal injection, in the electric chair or by a ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set an execution date for Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of killing the parents of his ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...