A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

A Texas man on death row, Richard Lee Tabler, uttered two desperate last words just moments before being executed by lethal ...

It’s unspeakable that a man who was in prison and had a sentence, that sentence for what he did, it wasn’t meant to be a death sentence. I immediately, even without seeing the video ...

Steven Lawayane Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50pm CST at the Texas state penitentiary in Huntsville ... He was sentenced to death after he was convicted ...

Mogab said she spoke to her brother on the telephone on Saturday as well as other men incarcerated at the prison. “There are witnesses to the death of Mr. Pointer,” Mogab said ...

The death of a man brutally beaten by corrections officers at an upstate New York prison late last year has been ruled a homicide in an autopsy, lawyers for his family said Wednesday. Robert ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday. The report issued ...