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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel ...

Thirty-one years after being sentenced to death, a Fairfax County killer had his sentence changed to life in prison.

Tennessee prison officials say they won't publicly release the the state's latest manual for executing death row inmates ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

A New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood killed two people died and injured 10 others, ...

As President Biden prepares to leave office, he indicated that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on ...

Under President Joe Biden’s commutation logic, if a death row inmate, whose sentence is commuted to life in prison, and while ...

Like prior lame-duck US presidents, Joe Biden has been racing to complete unfinished business in an attempt to bolster his ...

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith, the state has announced a new lethal ...