Prosecutors argued that the guard “abused her authority” while trying to diffuse a physical altercation outside a northwest ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

The API failed to deliver the resource. Stephen Stanko, an Horry, Georgetown County death row inmate, has been executed, officials confirm.

Stephen Stanko's lawyers, in their 49-page brief, include a number of ways their experts think South Carolina is improperly carrying out executions.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina currently has 26 inmates on death row, including Stephen Stanko, whose death warrant was issued Friday by the state Supreme Court. Stanko, who is se… ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of two murders in Horry County. Now the SC death row inmate must choose his method of execution for those killings.

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they have a bittersweet new lease on life.

An appeal brought by a former deputy with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of a supermarket manager, was dismissed as moot Wednesday.

Reporter Steven Hale speaks at a news conference outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller on December 6, 2018, in ...

California is relocating death row inmates to prisons across the state. A few are now in San Diego. Twenty-two condemned inmates have been transferred to Donovan prison in Otay Mesa, part of a ...