The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high ...

The State Department of Corrections could carry out another execution as early as late october after south carolina’s first ...

After South Carolina executed its first inmate in more than a decade, many are wondering what is next for the other men on death row.

South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state's first execution in 13 years.

Freddie Owens, a death row inmate convicted in the 1997 killing of a convenience store clerk during a robbery, was executed ...

South Carolina has executed its first death row inmate in 13 years for the murder of a convenience store clerk in 1997.

In South Carolina, the governor has sole authority to grant clemency. However, no South Carolina governor has granted ...

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system ... Union wanted to air a podcast with a death row inmate and also represents a transgender woman ...

SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH ROW INMATE WANTS TO DELAY EXECUTION, SAYS CO-DEFENDANT LIED ABOUT NOT HAVING PLEA DEAL "I have known Mr. Owens for 15 years," she wrote. "Under the circumstances, and in light ...

An death row inmate who was given three options for his execution will have his sentence carried out in South Carolina this month. Freddie Owens, 46, who was convicted of murder after gunning down ...

Freddie Owens asked his lawyer to choose his execution method because, as a Muslim, he viewed participating in his own death as akin to suicide. On Sept. 20, South Carolina prison inmate Freddie ...