The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed – a killer in a case with ties to Augusta – has selected lethal ...

Stephen Stanko, a convicted murderer, chose after courts denied him more information about South Carolina's firing squad and ...

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

The State of Indiana executed a 45-year-old man on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a police officer, making him the 17th ...

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...

Here's a look at the history behind the death penalty method. The earliest recorded execution by shooting came in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608. Capt. George Kendall came to be suspected of mutiny ...

Stanko has been on South Carolina’s death row since 2006. He was sentenced to death twice: Once in Georgetown County for the ...

That's when police said a man opened the door while displaying a firearm. Middletown police said an officer fired their gun, ...

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison ...

One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7 ... Weiss was present at Mahdi's execution on April 11. He said when the curtain to the death chamber was pulled back, Mahdi was sitting down and ...