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.

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

Owens' execution will be followed by two double executions on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, Texas executed ...

If this week’s remaining executions are completed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually ...

North Carolina death penalty opponents will begin a 136-mile walk across the state, to bring attention to those on death row ...

The State Department of Corrections could carry out another execution as early as late october after south carolina’s first ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE — A Texas man who had waived his right to appeal his death sentence was put to death Tuesday evening for killing ...