There have been several high-profile challenges to planned executions but many more that never see the light of day. Why is it so difficult for people on death row to have their cases reexamined?

Authorities say 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Moore is believed to be the only person in the history of South Carolina’s death penalty to be executed in connection with an ...

A former US police officer has been convicted by a federal jury of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched ...

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg ...

A federal jury has cleared a former Kentucky detective of a charge that he violated the civil rights of Breonna Taylor’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid. Four men have been hit with a maximum cumulative jail sentence of more than ...

Richard Moore was sentenced to death in 2001 by a nearly all-white jury for a robbery gone bad following a trial that lasted ...

Mike Franks ( Kyle Schmid) is going to go through it when an old case rears its head again.

Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put to death on Nov. 2, 1984. Barfield was convicted of murder and had also confessed to fatally poisoning at ...

South Carolina is less than 24 hours away from executing its second death row inmate in 13 years, Richard Moore. The next day, there will be a final push for clemency for Richard Moore's lawyer, ...