On a balmy day in April 1977, Gov. Mills E. Godwin and a bevy of prison officials, some dressed in seersucker suits, performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a cluster of grand new buildings.

(7News) — Tributes are pouring in across the D.C. region following the death of Virginia Congressman ... Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA): "I’m saddened to learn of the passing of my Virginia colleague ...

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...

A man convicted of abducting, robbing and killing a Salt Lake woman in 1988 is competent to be executed despite suffering ...

After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates were put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would likely mean his own ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, is on death row in Mississippi and scheduled for execution on June 25th for a 1976 murder. The state argues Jordan has exhausted his appeals and the Supreme Court lacks ...

Another Texas death row case from the late 1990s is facing scrutiny as laws and science evolve, questioning if the state got it right in the capital murder case of Charles Flores. Flores ...

The state has not put an inmate to death since 1999, although seven convicted killers from Berks County are among 101 prisoners presently occupying a cell on Pennsylvania's death row. Berks County ...

Jason Lee jlee@thesunnews.com The S.C. Supreme Court has set the latest execution date for a South Carolina death row inmate. Stephen Stanko will be put to death on Friday, June 13, the state ...

Death row inmate Brandy Bain Jennings, convicted of three 1995 murders at a Naples Cracker Barrel, has died of cancer. Jennings and accomplice Charles Jason Graves were convicted of robbing the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which ...