The next South Carolina death row inmate scheduled for execution has chosen firing squad. Friday was the deadline for Mikal ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina, it was the first time in 15 years that an ...

Iwao Hakamata was found not guilty last year - 56 years on from being falsely convicted of the murder of his boss and his ...

For United Methodist minister Hillary Taylor, there's a reward in introducing outsiders to someone who is kind and ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and ...