Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

South Carolina is set to execute a man by firing squad, a method unused in the US for nearly 15 years. The article reviews ...

A federal public defender is arguing that prosecutors have long forfeited the right to pursue capital punishment in the murder case against Richardson Dangleben Jr., but the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

The death penalty has long been a controversial and divisive issue, with passionate advocates on both sides of the debate.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that condemned Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip be given a new trial.

The legislature and judiciary should “seriously introspect” whether there should be capital punishment in our criminal justice system after 75 years of the Constitution and if it proved deterrent, ...

So please contact your local party leaders and challenge them to introduce and vote on a limited capital punishment bill, limited to those prisoners who murder a prison employee, a fellow inmate ...