COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of ...

James “Jimmy” Robertson, convicted of killing his parents in Rock Hill in 1997, wants to drop an appeal and die after South ...

What Florida has done is turn decades of precedent in death penalty jurisprudence on its head. In that jurisprudence, people ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal ...

INDIANAPOLIS — With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad.

Harold Nichols, 64, is also scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols was convicted of rape and first-degree felony murder in the 1988 death of Karen Pulley in Hamilton County.