Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said the D.C. shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers is being investigated as a hate ...

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. discusses the murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers and more on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ ...

Gregory Hunt, convicted of the 1998 murder and sexual assault of Karen Lane, will argue that he killed but did not sexually ...

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Stephen Stanko, an inmate set to be put to death in June, is seeking secretive details about SC's execution methods following ...