A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

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In court filings, the state argued that Bowman could have chosen a firing squad or electric chair for his execution, but he ...

Bowman, 44, was executed by lethal injection at approximately 6:27 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution, the South Carolina Department of Corrections said in a statement issued to ...

In court filings, the state argued that Bowman could have chosen a firing squad or electric chair for his execution, but he opted to die by lethal injection for Martin's "gruesome murder." Lindsey ...

The judge who denied Bowman's appeal over concerns about lethal injection said he could have opted for the electric chair or the firing squad instead. There were 25 executions in the US last year.

Inmates can choose to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad. Owens and Moore were the first to be put to death. There are still three other inmates on death row who have ...