A Jan. 10 trial date was scheduled Friday for a 23-year-old probationer accused of fatally beating a Riverside senior after breaking into her home. Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena of Palm Springs was arrested ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution ...

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...

In Ford v. Wainwright, the court held in 1986 that “insane” people could not be sentenced to die; Atkins v. Virginia in 2002 ...

A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to die by lethal ...

Tennessee seeks death penalty in the case against Kenneth DeHart Jr. for the fatal shooting of Deputy Greg McCowan.

Some are now urging South Caroilina's highest leader to stop the execution of convicted murderer Freddie Owens from happening ...

Wells Fargo's latest regulatory rebuke for insufficient efforts to combat money laundering will probably prolong another ...

The governor has previously described South Carolina’s decade-plus hiatus in carrying out executions as justice delayed. Shortly before Owens’ scheduled execution time on Sept. 20, McMaster is ...