Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have ...

Representatives for Tennessee death row prisoners have formally asked the state to pause all executions, again, until next ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row men Oscar Smith and Byron Black are calling on Governor Bill Lee to issue a temporary halt ...

Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South ...

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening.

A Florida man convicted of kidnapping a 49-year-old Miami resident and strangling her to death in Monroe County was executed Wednesday evening.

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...