Just a week after Kansas Highway Patrol leaders expressed their disappointment with a decision to grant parole to a man who ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

Gallows built to exactly replicate the original are now part of what visitors can see at the former Kansas State Penitentiary ...

A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court ...

Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

Decision season starts Thursday for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions ...

Sandra Gallagher's sister says she enjoyed brightening people's day so much, she used to give flowers to strangers. She was ...

A man convicted of killing a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in 1978 has been granted parole after having past requests ...

"The evidence before us convinces us—though an inmate ... state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including a firing squad ...

Wesley Ira Purkey was sentenced to death in 2020 for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, and the killing of an 80-year ...

That has happened before when the firing squad team practices its job to fire at the inmate from 15 feet (4.6 meters ... Twenty-six people remain on South Carolina’s death row. Stephen Stanko, who has ...

The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole denied clemency in the case of John Hanson May 7, leaving him to face execution in ...