A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of ... by nitrogen gas in recent years reported seeing the condemned men writhing on the gurney as they were forced to inhale nothing but ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

When executions resumed, the State Supreme Court released a list of the first six men who would be executed. Brad Sigmon of Greenville was the fourth and most recent death row inmate executed.