Officials say one person was hospitalized after a shooting in the University City area of Charlotte early Sunday morning.

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted, Louisiana ...

South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in U.S. in 15 years - Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in ...

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

Jeremiah T. Byrd’s defense is asking the judge handling Byrd’s criminal case to rule that all of Byrd’s statements are inadmissible at trial. In particular, Byrd’s defense attorney is asking Daviess ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...