Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Roberts killed Jones on April 22, 1992. He stole money from her wallet while she was asleep and then shot her three times in ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn't plan to stop the execution because they didn't have evidence ...

A South Carolina man was put to death by lethal injection Friday evening in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A South Carolina man was put to death by lethal injection Friday evening in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was sentenced for two separate ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection. ... Medical workers will place an IV in his arm before the curtain is opened to the witness room.

Stanko, who set to die June 13, had a choice among firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. His lawyers said in previous court filings he didn’t want to suffer what he thought was ...