The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

A South Carolina man on death row is scheduled to be executed next month for killing a man and painting "catch me if u can" ...

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man and scrawled a haunting message on the wall with his blood has had his execution ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court deliberated an hour before rejecting Abel Hidrago’s self-defense claims and ...

At 12:01 a.m. CDT, the time proscribed by court order to begin the execution of Roy Lee Ward, a small crowd gathered in the parking lot across the street from the ...

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if u can” on the wall ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senators have added a firing squad to the electric chair as alternatives if the state can’t execute condemned inmates via lethal injection. The Senate then approved the ...

Boyd used his final words to proclaim his innocence and criticize the criminal justice system. "I didn't kill anybody. I didn ...

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, ...