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

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 ...

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 ...

South Carolina executed inmate Freddie Owens after a 13-year pause. Owens was convicted of a 1997 killing, signaling the state's return to executions using pentobarbital.

This will be a bad week for everyone who hopes to make this country a fairer, more just, and more compassionate place.

After South Carolina executed its first inmate in more than a decade, many are wondering what is next for the other men on death row.

South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state's first execution in 13 years.