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Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left for France on Tuesday, with his lawyer saying he was ...

Death Row inmates protest executions at the prison by refusing to ... The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.