The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

A woman who survived a home invasion and shooting that killed her friend has shared her thoughts on the last words of the ...

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed at Oklahoma State Penitentiary for a 2005 home invasion and murder. He killed Amber Dawn ...

Just before Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom was put to death, he used his last words to issue a message to ...

James was executed by lethal injection for the brutal 1993 murders of 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Toni Neuner, who was raped.

The survivors of an Oklahoma death row inmate's 2005 deadly home invasion spoke after his execution on Thursday.

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection Thursday at t State Penitentiary in the state's first execution of ...

An Arizona man who kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend's ex-husband was executed Wednesday, the second of four prisoners ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr was denied the chance to carry out a Buddhist ritual in this final moments after declining to take part in ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...