Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after being injected with a three-drug cocktail while strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, a case that could carry the ...

More than 20 states have banned the death penalty, yet Pennsylvania hasn’t. The question of whether the commonwealth should ...

That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after ...

Clark County prosecutors are reviewing whether to seek the death penalty in a deadly crash that killed three people last ...

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...

The state also has the highest number of exonerations. Thirty people in Florida have had their death sentences overturned since the 1970s because of wrongful convictions or inconclusive evidence.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

When Burgettstown resident Joshua George was charged with the 2022 death of his 6-month-old son, the Washington County District Attorney’s office sought the death penalty. George, 40, was acquitted in ...

Nick Reiner may face the death penalty if he is convicted of murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, but he ...

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...