Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

Twenty-five executions were also carried out last year and in 2018. Those are the highest totals since there were 28 in 2015. Here's a look at recent executions and those scheduled for the rest ...

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

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's ...

Richard Jordan, who spent nearly half a century on Mississippi’s death row, was lying strapped to a gurney with his arms ...

In 2023, Florida lawmakers passed a law prohibiting high schools from starting classes before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

April 11 (UPI) -- South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.