Protesters outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted Clifford ...

In December 2024, Joe Biden, then in the last weeks of his presidency, made a final move to block the incoming Trump administration from resuming the execution of federal prisoners. With his clemency ...

Nick Reiner may face the death penalty if he is convicted of murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, but that does not necessarily mean he will be executed. Nick stands accused of ...

Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, a case that could carry the death penalty, which has not been used in California for nearly two decades ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday, Dec. 15, to hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of racial bias in jury selection. Terry Pitchford ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — After years of covering murder trials, death-row appeals and, once, an execution itself, I’ve learned this much: the death penalty asks us to believe in finality, even as it rarely ...

You've been waiting for this moment for years, and now that it's here, you just wish you had a little more time. In today's dark new death row video we are counting down the last 60 minutes of a death ...

An obese man on death row in Georgia has requested a buffet-style spread consisting of high-calorie meats and other treats for his last meal. Stacey Humphreys, 52, is scheduled to be executed by ...

A Georgia death row inmate has requested a greasy, calorie-laden feast for his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution next week. Stacey Humphreys was scheduled to die by lethal injection the night ...

An obese Georgia death row inmate requested a greasy, gluttonous buffet-style spread packed with thousands of calories for his last meal, scheduled for next week. Stacey Humphreys, 52, will be put to ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...