Beyond the appeal, Bryant can also ask the governor to reduce his death sentence to life in prison in a decision that, if ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to ...

A South Carolina man’s death row execution is being attempted to be stopped by his lawyers by arguing his brain damage was ...

He did hours of interviews to go beyond the barrage of real-time reporting of crimes and trials and occasional executions, ...

Stephen Bryant, 44, a man on South Carolina's death row notorious for taunting investigators with a letter written in his ...

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then wrote "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago has been scheduled to be ...

Brad Keith Sigmon carried out a brutal double murder after a night of drinking and smoking crack cocaine - telling a friend he'd get back at his girlfriend "for leaving him" ...

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is calling for the death penalty for Alexander Dickey, a career criminal charged with the murder of college student Logan Federico, whose father supports getting justice for a ...

All the research that has been conducted on the death penalty by unbiased and sophisticated researchers tells us quite ...

Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd on Thursday added to the growing number of executions for the year. Boyd was the 40th ...

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with at least six others scheduled to be put to death later this month. The total for ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.