A judge has cleared the way for South Carolina to pursue the death penalty against Brandon Council.

State prosecutors began the process for setting a schedule in the man’s trial where the state is seeking a death sentence.

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

A 74-year-old man, who became the oldest individual to be executed in Florida since records were first kept in 1924, offered ...

Brandon Council, already convicted on federal murder charges in the deaths of Donna Major and Katie Skeen during the Crescom ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed ...