Bewildered by the riddle life was unravelling, King Sunny Ade, in 1974, lifted his voice in a plaintive cry, “È sú biri-biri kè bó mi o.” At the time, the ...

Nineteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put ...

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

James Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. Now he says he's ready to die.

Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

His attorneys have questioned whether two of the available methods, firing squad and lethal injection, have gone the way ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant against Stephen Stanko for the Horry County shooting death of a friend.

Stephen Stanko, an inmate set to be put to death in June, is seeking secretive details about SC's execution methods following ...

South Carolina legislators call for an investigation into Mikal Mahdi's firing squad execution, amid claims of a "botched" ...

Stephen Stanko is scheduled for death on June 13 and must decide by May 30 whether to die by lethal injection, firing squad, ...