COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

A death row inmate who was executed by a method only used five times in 50 years took his last breath on Friday (11 April). Mikal Mahdi was put on death row after claiming the lives of two people in ...

A death row prisoner who was put to death on Friday (11 April) had a hearty selection of food for his final meal. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering two men ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – The Louisiana Supreme Court late Friday put the brakes on execution plans for two Caddo Parish death row inmates. The ruling puts the cases back before a Caddo District Court ...

But in Georgia, execution alternatives are under debate. Death row inmate Michael Wade Nance has challenged federal courts to allow death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. AJC's Najja ...

He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2017. Pannir remains on death row in Singapore today. On International Siblings Day today, Angelia shares cherished memories of her brother, offering a ...

The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Shahid Azeem, a Norwegian-Pakistani citizen, to life imprisonment. Azeem was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge in Islamabad for the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with Gov. Henry McMaster, asking to commute the sentence ...

In 2024, nearly one in four (130) death row prisoners were in UP, the most populous state in India that also has the highest number of prisoners. Gujarat (71), Maharashtra (42) and West Bengal (37 ...

A TEEN girl stabbed her cousin's boyfriend to death in a "murderous rage" after a row on a night out, a murder trial has heard. Paige Poulton is on trial accused of killing Jack Cadwallader ...

A 380lb killer has been executed after his lawyers claimed he was too overweight for lethal injection. Michael Tanzi, branded a 'fledgling serial killer,' was put to death just after 6pm on ...

April 9 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the state's third execution in 2025 and the United States ...