Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state's ...

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state ...

Mississippi Department of Corrections protocol requires execution staff to ensure that inmates are completely unconscious ...

Richard Jordan, who is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi on June 25 argues against lethal-injection drug combination in federal court.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman outside a Florida bar has been scheduled for execution on July 15.

Indiana's lethal injections force doctors to break their "do no harm" oath while costing $450,000 per execution.