While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

Policy Fellow at ACLU of Nebraska Jason Witmer spoke in favor of the constitutional amendment. "There's no value in the death ...

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal ...

A federal judge on Friday refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., saying the inmate had not proven his claims that the new method is unconstitutionally cruel and ...

An anti-death penalty group is holding a vigil for a Lowcountry man who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31.

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.