A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed ...

The morning after watching a movie about a wrongly convicted Alabama Black man on death row, I was surprised to see a story ...

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

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

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, awaits execution on death row. Credit ... S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find ...