South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Lawmakers held a hearing for two different pieces of legislation that would change the death penalty. LR15CA is a constitutional amendment that would get rid of the death penalty. LB432 is a bill that ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...

Chief District Judge Emily C. Marks rejected Demetrius Frazier’s request for a preliminary injunction to either stop his ...