COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for ...

Marcellus Williams, a man on death row in the 1998 death of Lisha Gayle, is scheduled to be executed for the murder in just a ...

Oklahoma plans to execute its third prisoner this year unless Governor Kevin Stitt grants mercy to Emmanuel Littlejohn, who ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate who was recommended for clemency said he is asking for mercy as his Sept. 26 execution date approaches. "Governor Stitt, I didn't kill no one. I'm asking for mercy. I'm ...

South Carolina carried out its first execution in 13 years on Friday. Death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection ...

Freddie Eugene Owens gave no official last words as the state of South Carolina injected fatal drugs into his veins — the ...

When it comes to abolishing the death penalty in the U.S., a small but determined band of activists and policymakers are ...

Freddie Owens was put to death by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina shortly before 7 ...

Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.

Jesse Motte, right, protests the planned execution of Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Columbia, S.C.

The court, however, limits it to 'special and exceptional circumstances' and bans its use for mentally ill defendants ...