A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

James Osgood, convicted in 2014 for the rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown, will be executed on April 24. He withdrew his ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...

Osgood was convicted of the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County. Prosecutors said Osgood cut her throat after he and his girlfriend sexually assaulted her.

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the murder of Orangeburg police officer James Edward Meyers in Calhoun County, South Carolina, in 2004.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State of South Carolina to put this power on full and ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...