When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves ...

A six-day spate of executions in the U.S. began Friday with the South Carolina execution of Freddie Owens amid doubts over ...

A series of executions in the U.S. continued Tuesday, when two men were given lethal injections within an hour of each other.

A Texas man who waived his right to appeal his death sentence has been executed for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 ...

If carried out as planned, the executions will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in ...

Travis Mullis, who sexually assaulted his baby son before strangling him and stomping on his head in January 2008, has been ...

The Supreme Court is generally unified in its ruling on death penalty cases, but Marcellus Williams' case sparked differing ...

Columnist Steve Bailey writes that if Gov. Henry McMaster believes Freddie Owens' execution is “justice,” then he should have ...

Mullis is set to to die by lethal injection about 16 years after he killed 3-month-old Alijah and abandoned his body in a ...

Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades ...

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

Live: Freddie Owens executed:Live: Freddie Owens executed. First execution in South Carolina since 2011 Under vibrant pink ...