Redemption features as a strong theme among Jewish, Latter-day Saints, and Catholic perspectives about the death penalty in ...

With South Carolina set to resume executions Friday for the first time since 2011, the cruel and unusual ... A forensic psychiatrist who wrote her 2010 thesis on the Stinney case added that ...

The state's second nitrogen hypoxia execution is set for Sept. 26, with more executions scheduled for October and November.

Prisoners strapped to the electric chair have previously burst into flames, as their flesh melted away, blood 'boiled', and ...

South Carolina's high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ...

In 1976, the United States Supreme Court ruled executions could once again be conducted. Alabama waited seven years after that ban was lifted before the first inmate was executed in 1983.

Since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. in the 1970s — after an eight-year pause due to legal wrangling over the issue — Washington has executed five people, but none since 2010.

Freddie Owens, 46, will be the first ... executions in the United States this year -- three in Alabama, three in Texas, two in Missouri, two in Oklahoma and one each in Florida, Georgia and Utah.

Media witnesses look at the lethal injection table in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional ... lethal injection would be the first execution since the state Supreme Court ruled ...

Media witnesses look at the lethal injection table in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility after ... His death by lethal injection would be the first execution since the state ...