A man who has been on South Carolina’s death row for more than 20 years is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Brad Sigmon, 67 ...
Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...
Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...
The debate over the death penalty has intensified in Pennsylvania, with House Bill 888 now seeking to eliminate capital ...
South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...
Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...
While he was supposed to die at the hands of the state, California abolished the death penalty in 1972 — which resulted in ...