March 10 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for a 48-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg law enforcement officer in 2004 has learned the date of ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...

The state attorney’s office in Broward County filed a notice to seek the death penalty for Nathan Gingles in a Thursday court filing.

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

One of Sigmon’s attorneys, Gerald “Bo” King, said shortly ... public opinion away from the death penalty.” South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death row, according to state records.

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

The death penalty is now on the table for the man charged in a horrific triple killing in a Tamarac neighborhood last month that left his estranged wife, her father and a neighbor dead.