An anti-death penalty group is holding a vigil for a Lowcountry man who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County ...

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal ...

Marion Bowman Jr. dies Jan. 31, becomes third man put to death since South Carolina resumed executions. He was convicted of ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the death sentence of a man who murdered a 13-year-old girl in 2008 in a Panama City motel room.

Demetrius Frazier’s lawyers asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to demand his return to his home state, where he would live ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

South Carolina has executed Marion Bowman Jr., the third inmate to die at the hands of the state since executions resumed in ...