Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

If you’ve been following Alabama news for a few years, you remember the poop train, a controversy in Central Alabama that ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...

Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection after telling the loved ones of his victims that 'forgiveness' would 'heal' ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates were put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would likely ...