NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex South has worked at some of the UK's toughest and most notorious ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood. Wood, 67, had been set to die Thursday over the killings of six girls and ...