South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

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

The federal death penalty will continue to exist under the second Trump administration. The president-elect’s ability to make ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

Richard Moore, the Spartanburg man, on death row for murder, was executed Friday evening. Moore, 59, was convicted in 2001 of ...

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

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other progressive groups are calling on President Joe Biden to abolish the ...

The Russian soldiers deliberately execute Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia uses this tactic to intimidate its own soldiers ...