The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

A man who stabbed his friend twice in the heart during an alcohol-fuelled row has been found guilty of his murder. Matthew ...

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns ...

Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the ...

Mikal Mahdi gorged on ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and sweet tea as a his last meal ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

The Supreme Court acquitted a man after a decade on death row in a rape-murder case, citing a flawed police investigation ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the heart by three riflemen on Friday.No ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...