An Arizona man who kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend's ex-husband was executed Wednesday, the second of four prisoners ...

Governor Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill say they want to clear Louisiana’s backlog of death row ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in 2004 has filed a stay of execution.

Ret. Virginia Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Koontz, a longtime jurist who served on every level of Virginia’s court system and helped shape the state’s judiciary, died Sunday in Salem, according to a ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Justice Lawrence Larkins Koontz, Jr., 85, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, has died.

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

Over six years and more than 100 articles at the Union, K.W. Lee chipped away at the weak evidence and shoddy defense that ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 14 other people are scheduled to be executed in eight ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...