COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.