Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the ...

The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that ...

By the end of this week, five men across the United States will have died from execution. Texas leads all-time death penalty ...

Mullis is set to to die by lethal injection about 16 years after he killed 3-month-old Alijah and abandoned his body in a ...

The state Supreme Court set the order in which the men would be executed with the earliest for a Spartanburg man in October ...

Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades ...

A Texas man with a history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence is facing execution for killing his 3-month-old son.

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

The Post and Courier reported that at a hearing prior to Friday's execution of Freddie Owens, the state Supreme Court ruled that new information about a secret deal with Owens’ accomplice wasn’t ...

South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state's first execution in 13 years.

After South Carolina executed its first inmate in more than a decade, many are wondering what is next for the other men on ...

South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens by lethal injections as questions over his guilt arose over the last couple of ...