Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

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

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

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.

Public support for the death penalty remains at a five-decade low ... chose the firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. His attorney cited "prolonged and potentially torturous ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...