A last-minute appeal and request for clemency were denied for the Greenville man convicted of killing convenience store clerk ...

Taiwan is retaining the death penalty, but the top court has imposed restrictions on its implementation. Taiwan has carried out 35 executions since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in ...

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

South Carolina has now adopted a one-drug protocol, using the sedative pentobarbital, which mirrors the federal government’s ...

With rising cases and low conviction rates, it is imperative to have societal change beyond legal reforms to address the ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

The already dying capital punishment system could be eradicated much sooner if evangelical Christians would stop supporting ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials are planning to take its last 'death chamber' ...

In Ford v. Wainwright, the court held in 1986 that “insane” people could not be sentenced to die; Atkins v. Virginia in 2002 ...