L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

A man convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer is to be put to death by firing squad Friday in South ...

Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.

Sigmon struggled in the chair as the sound of gunfire erupted ... but his attorneys argue that he never should have been given the death penalty because his extensive history of abuse, mental ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

The Department of Justice, under U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, took a fresh look but reaffirmed an earlier decision not ...

Atwater Village gang boss Timothy McGhee's first-degree murder convictions were tossed out by the California Supreme Court ...