Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

During the execution, the inmate is strapped to the chair in the facility's death chamber, housing the electric chair, which cannot be removed, according to prison officials. A target is then ...

Famed Gifford rapper Jamell Demons, known as YNW Melly, wants a judge to release him from jail while he waits to go on trial ...

Councillors agreed to the scheme next to the Armley Gyratory after design changes and additional green space were also added. UCR Leeds Ltd sought planning permission from Leeds City Council for ...

A South Carolina cop killer refused to offer remorse for his crimes and ignored onlookers before he was shot to death by a prison firing ... opting for the very rare execution method over lethal ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the ... He went to juvenile prison at 14. He spent the next seven years in and out of prison before committing the two murders.

Witnesses to the execution, which typically involve family members of both the inmate and victim, members of the news media, attorneys and prison staff, "will see the right-side profile of the ...

firing squad or a new lethal injection protocol to carry out its first executions in nearly 13 years. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File) ...

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing United Healthcare’s chief executive officer, are asking a federal judge to block the Justice Department from seeking the death penalty ...

Luigi Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO in December. Luigi Mangione asked a federal judge in New York on Friday to stop the government from seeking the death penalty if he’s ...

Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old suspect in the stabbing death of Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf, cannot face the death penalty or life without parole, according to Collin County District ...