Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment.

The Idaho Department of Correction has put a pause on all state executions as of May 23 to complete renovations of the death row facility at the Idaho State Maximum Security Institution.

The execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise. (Courtesy of IDOC) This story originally published May 27 on Idaho Reports. The Idaho Department of Correction has ...

Smith's execution marks a return to capital punishment ... and no family should have to endure a loss like ours." Smith was born in Ohio in 1950, one of seven children. His family later moved ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, alongside a representative for the family of fallen Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Henderson, is denouncing online fundraising efforts for the man ...

Smith's execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on May 22. Prison staff, in these final two days, are inspecting all rooms and equipment in the capital punishment unit. That includes Smith's ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on ...

Other states with scheduled executions this year are Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina, though Ohio’s governor has been routinely postponing the actions as their dates near.